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July 2022
Prime Suspect 2:  A Face in the Crowd

Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd

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Author: Lynda La Plante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The coroner's report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to...
Crossroads

Crossroads

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Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Set in a historical moment of moral crisis,...
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 406 Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting...
The Giver of Stars: Fall in love with the enchanting 2020 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Me Before You

The Giver of Stars: Fall in love with the enchanting 2020 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Me Before You

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Author: Jojo Moyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The brand-new standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author of Me Before You, After You and Still Me...
Atonement

Atonement

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The best thing he has ever written' Observer Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies....
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A cult writer at his best Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for...
A Heart so White

A Heart so White

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Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Haunting and unsettling,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

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Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Author: Joan Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A reinvigoration of the iconic Australian classic that captivated generations of readers, featuring stylish new cover art and a...
Nostalgia

Nostalgia

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Author: Mircea Cartarescu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Author: Ken Kesey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 At long last Ken Kesey's 1962 cult classic novel has entered Modern Classics series. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering,...
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

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Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork...
In the Winter Dark

In the Winter Dark

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Tim Winton's classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark is spellbinding. Tim Winton's classic...
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the...
The First Man

The First Man

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died...
Gutshot Straight: A Novel

Gutshot Straight: A Novel

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Author: Lou Berney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 "Lou Berney's novel is so energetic, so droll, and so wheezingly funny that it accomplished what no book ever...
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A story of love and jealousy, tragedy and forgiveness, a lost child and a found family 'A shining delight...
Machines Like Me

Machines Like Me

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me. **Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting...
The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

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Author: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a...
In Search of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove

In Search of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove

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Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from...
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

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Author: Anne Tyler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise.'...
Grown Ups: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller 2020

Grown Ups: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller 2020

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Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Playtime is over as Marian's Sunday Times No 1 blockbuster comes out in paperback MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL....
Olive, Again: New novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge

Olive, Again: New novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge

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Author: Elizabeth Strout Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The latest masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, now in...
Hot Milk

Hot Milk

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Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author...
Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the Penguin Classics edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is edited...
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to...
Our Ancestors

Our Ancestors

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of...
Let Me Tell You

Let Me Tell You

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure...
With or Without You: A Novel

With or Without You: A Novel

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Author: Caroline Leavitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 "Leavitt has crafted an irresistible portrait of midlife ennui and the magic of breaking free." -People "With or Without...
The Music Shop: From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Music Shop: From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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Author: Rachel Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A story about the triumph of a quiet hero. And how music can bring us back to life. The...
The Faces

The Faces

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Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen,...
The Looking Glass War

The Looking Glass War

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When...
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories

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Author: Diana Gabaldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander...
Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

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Author: Stella Gibbons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Stella Gibbons' hilarious comic novel of rural life, new to Penguin Modern Classics When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is...
Hangsaman

Hangsaman

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An unsettling story of a teenage girl's self-destruction from the author of The Lottery Natalie Waite, daughter of a...
Foucault's Pendulum

Foucault's Pendulum

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Author: Umberto Eco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance" Three book editors,...
Guards! Guards!: Introduction by Ben Aaronovitch

Guards! Guards!: Introduction by Ben Aaronovitch

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Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld novels introducing new readers to the wonderful world of...
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel

Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel

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Author: Harper Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill...
Remarkable Creatures

Remarkable Creatures

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Author: Tracey Chevalier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 340 "Vivid and engrossing" - Financial Times Remarkable Creatures is a 2009 historical fiction novel set on the Jurassic coast...
Painted in Blood

Painted in Blood

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Author: Ilaria Tuti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days of...
The Ice Palace

The Ice Palace

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Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...
Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Re-jacketed in stylish new series style, Amsterdam won the 1998 Man Booker Prize. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE*** Two...
Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains

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Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America,...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

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Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of...
The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

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Author: Gunter Grass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and...