Fiction

Penelope Mortimer's classic novel about a woman falling apart in 1960s London, now a Radio 4 adaptation 'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her...' In this...

Perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most famous novel, now in a beautiful new cover Women in Love is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where The Rainbow...

The sensational debut novel of one of the 20th century's greatest modernist writers Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was twenty-three...

Kawabata's serenely observed and enormously affecting portrait of old age Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death...

Venus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the...

The spicy third chapter of The Mafia Academy Series- A forbidden enemy's best friend dark romance set at a mafia boarding school for the sons and daughters of the most...

The brand new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop ! 'Heartwarming and full of wonder ... a spellbinding tale' Barnes & Noble Reads 🎻🎻🎻 On...

Death is only the beginning... 'Breathtaking ... A new talent [in] the field of gothic historical literature' NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS 'Devilishly macabre ... As dark as a midnight...

Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best thriller A Love Reading Book of the Month 'Mark Ezra's impressive debut creatively mixes biblical themes with echoes of Richard Osman's...

'MAGNETIC, CLAUSTROPHOBIC, WICKEDLY ALIVE' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB 'IF STEPHEN KING, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH AND JOHN WATERS HAD A BABY - ITS THIS BRILLIANT BOOK' JODIE HARSH 'HORNY. GORY....

Curl up this winter with a heart-warming Christmas romance for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey ! 'A page-turning festive read, full of will they/won't they romance, intriguing glimpses...

'Inventive' THE TIMES From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and...

'The narrative voice is yarning, chatty and sardonic, but under all the jokes and stories there's a sharp critique of bureaucrats and institutions, and an appreciation of the heroic nature...

'The gut-truths presented in Benevolence are tied to a larger reckoning needed in Australian society one that involves a centring of First Nation voices, a willingness to address not just...

A complete collection of Oscar Wilde's dazzling fairytales Celebrated as the writer of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde is equally beloved for...

Three previously unpublished stories by the master of tense set-ups These three stories--'Picket Line', 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man'--show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure...

'As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you'll find . . . The action never stops, the language sings and stings' Washington Post Clement Mansell knows how easy it is...

A lean and mean thriller about one man and the Mob from 'the crime laureate' INDEPENDENT The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he...

A searing collection of E. M. Forster's short stories about forbidden sexuality and desire 'Neither of them knew when the end came, and he when he realised it felt no...

G. K. Chesterton's wild and whimsical debut novel, set in a future embattled London London, 1984. Democracy has given up the ghost. England's ruler is randomly selected, and this year...

A wild and wildly compelling noir novel about a train crash and a case of a mistaken identity What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody...

James Bond is back with a bang in Penguin Classics, in the new Crime & Espionage series 'It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting...

A memory loss mystery set in wartime New York Who stole George Matthews' life? 'Doctor, I think I'm losing my mind...' When a wealthy young man turns up at respected...

A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1970s classic Paul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence...

A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own making Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills,...

Nella Larsen's powerful first novel evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for...

One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fiction A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a...

A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent... In the Welsh seaside town of...

A gay classic coming-of-age novel and an unforgettable slice of British interwar upper-middle class life Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive fifteen-year-old, he hates school and...

A new edition of Darwin's remarkable account of the connection between emotion and facial expression which grew out of The Descent of Man Published in 1872, The Expression of the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Angered by the loss of his son in battle, the Earl of Northumberland...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Young King Henry wages war on France. But, tainted by his father's crimes,...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Conspiracies and intrigue are rife in the court of Henry VIII as a...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide Michel had been a blindfold scholar until,...

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories. The \"forgotten\" second volume of...

Penguin Classics relaunch The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them. In Ghosts, Osvald Alving...

In the darkness of war, light shines from the pages of a book... For as long as Alice Carmichael can remember, the only thing she's been able to count on...

'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...

THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING FANTASY TRILOGY 🔥 Praise for THE ENDING FIRE trilogy 🔥 'Epic in scope, its worldbuilding as intricate as filigree. THE FINAL STRIFE...

Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison... Each of...

One day, a heavy, dull feeling fills the cricket's head. And it won't go away. The other animals try to help. Would he like a party? Has he tried being...

When your favourite rockstar offers to be your wingman there's only one thing you cannot do - fall for him. Practice Makes Perfect meets How to Lose a Guy in...

A gambling addict lands a job working as a private chef to a Japanese billionaire with . . . unusual taste. A shocking and unputdownable read for fans of Lucy...

A moving reimagining of the man at the heart of Operation Mincemeat, brilliantly told by the celebrated wartime statesman, historian and author William Maryngton has one dream in life- to...

'One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era' The Nation Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquee, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life...

A trio of Simenon's finest psychological novels from the 1960s, including- The Hand, Betty and The Blue Room Amidst the fury of a relentless snowstorm, the loyalties of two friends...

A new anniversary edition of Eric Schlosser's international bestselling expose of how the fast food industry has shaped the world 'The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the...

One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...