Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special...

Author: Hannah Richell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 '[a] beautifully written novel that brims with art, beauty, love, family, passion and secrets' - Books+Publishing Two summers, decades apart. Two...

Author: Mhairi McFarlane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'The perfect balance of romcom and drama!' GRAZIA She kissed the groom. She's not the bride... Edie thought she'd...

Author: Evie Wyld Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE 2021 Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize Judging Panel, Zoya Patel, says of The Bass Rock:  “The...

Author: William S. Burroughs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical...

Author: Micah Nemerever Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A Literary Hub Best Book of Year * A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year * A Newsweek 25 Best...

Author: Emily M. Danforth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief' SARAH WATERS 'Beguilingly clever, very sexy and...

Author: Jen Beagin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Mona is twenty-three, emotionally adrift and cleaning houses to get by. While handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls...

Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and...

Author: J. D. Salinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages....

Author: Antonio Scurati Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel' New York Times 'Extraordinary' TLS 'The novel...

Author: Nino Haratischvili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when...

Author: Lynn Freed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset...

Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This is a modern love story. It is a story about learning to survive, endure and flourish in...

Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This pacy, nailbiting new Jack Reacher thriller is one of Lee Child's darkest and most addictive yet. Prepare to...

Author: Knut Hamsun Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 159 Hamsun's portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a...

Author: Kate Williams, Ma Ma Ma Ma (University of Wolverhampton) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 July 1840: The young Queen Victoria has just entered her third year on the...

Author: Anne Glenconner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . . Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical...

Author: David Mitchell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John...

Author: Charlotte Nash Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Three escaped pensioners. One single mother. A road trip to rescue her son. The new emotionally compelling page-turner by Australia's Charlotte...

Author: Thomas Pynchon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence...

Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. After two...

Author: Gill Sims Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel. I just wanted them...

Author: Elin Cullhed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed...

Author: Raymond Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep...

Author: Carole Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In the dead of night, Ayesha takes her daughter, Sabina, and slips quietly from her home, leaving behind a life of...

Author: Lisa Genova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Olivia is a young mother coping with the loss of her autistic son. She comes to Nantucket to separate herself...

Author: Ludmila Ulitskaya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The Big Green Tent is the kind of book for which the term "Russian novel" was invented. A sweeping saga, it...

Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...

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...

Author: Diana Gabaldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. 'Scotland's answer to Game of Thrones' HERALD THE FIRST NOVEL IN...

Author: Peter James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 How far would you go to live forever? Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for...

Author: Mischa Berlinski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work...

Author: Paul Lynch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful. --M John Harrison, The Guardian The haunting story of two men stranded at sea...

Author: Alex Preston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...

Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...

Author: Elin Hilderbrand Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those...

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona...

Author: Carlos Fuentes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike...

Author: Laura Jean McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION...

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...

Author: Stanley Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 2016. The world is on the brink of crisis. Who could have predicted how events would play out? In...

Author: Emeric Pressburger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish, and left me with so much to brood on that I...

Author: Sheila O'Flanagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan's THE MISSING WIFE -...

Author: Sheila Llewellyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Daniel stared at the white-ish brain matter clinging to the haft and clogging up the eye of the needle....

Author: D. H. Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in...

Author: Roisin Meaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 It's Una Darling's seventeenth birthday, but nobody feels much like celebrating. It's been exactly a year since the tragic death of...