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Mirror Man

Mirror Man

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'There is a connection, Jack. Find it, or you'll never find him.' The highly anticipated third crime thriller in the DCI Jack Hawksworth series. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Police are...
Sputnik Sweetheart: a deluxe gift edition of Murakami's masterful tale of unrequited love

Sputnik Sweetheart: a deluxe gift edition of Murakami's masterful tale

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A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki...
The Echo Chamber

The Echo Chamber

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From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and in the wake of a hugely successful hardback publication, The Echo Chamber is 'uproariously funny. The world has never needed satire...
Bewilderment: From the million-copy global bestselling author of The Overstory

Bewilderment: From the million-copy global bestselling author of The

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The breathtaking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory. THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB...
The Promise

The Promise

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Winner of the Booker Prize 2021 - discover the powerful story of a family in crisis. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Discover the Sunday Times bestselling story of a...
Mammoth: The bestselling comic novel narrated by a prehistoric mammoth

Mammoth: The bestselling comic novel narrated by a prehistoric mammoth

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2020's bestselling cult novel, narrated by a mammoth, now in B format. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric...
Ricochet

Ricochet

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The second book in the TikTok sensation Addicted series, now in a print edition with special bonus material! As a sex addict, Lily Calloway must do the impossible- stay celibate...
Addicted to You

Addicted to You

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The TikTok sensation Addicted to You, now in a print edition with special bonus material! She's addicted to sex. He's addicted to booze.... The only way out is rock bottom....
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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The million-copy global bestseller that captured readers across the globe. 'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often'...
A Pair of Silver Wings

A Pair of Silver Wings

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'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war. Edward Enderby has never spoken about being an RAF fighter pilot. But fifty...
Silverview

Silverview

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The much anticipated publication of John le Carre's last complete novel now in paperback Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a...
Belladonna

Belladonna

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A coming-of-age novel about love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy Isabella is worldly, alluring and brazen. Everything that Bridget is not. So when they both...
The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table

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'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements...
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

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The great writer's brilliant, blistering essay collection, chronicling how America--so great, so accomplished, so magical--began destroying its soul "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer...
The Bee Sting

The Bee Sting

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Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes...
Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate

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From the American master of historical fiction, an award-winning coming-of-age story set amidst the gangster underworld of Depression-era New York City It's 1930s New York and Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old...
Anything is Possible

Anything is Possible

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A stunning novel by the No. 1 New York Times bestselling, Times Top 10 bestseller and Man Booker long-listed author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton Anything...
Ragtime: Popular Penguins

Ragtime: Popular Penguins

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In America at the turn of the twentieth century, when society abounds with movers and shakers such as Houdini, J.P Morgan, Henry Ford and Emma Goldman, and the sultry rhythms...
Sons For The Return Home: Popular Penguins

Sons For The Return Home: Popular Penguins

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First published fifty years ago, this classic novel was Albert Wendt's first published book. This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing...
How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins

How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins

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Lou Connor wants to escape her emotionally crass family and life of poverty, so she travels from Sydney to the USA as an exchange student. But her host-family, the Hardings...
Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins

Our Sunshine: Popular Penguins

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Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly is written with a brilliant...
It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins

It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins

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Wresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. They confront...
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins

The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins

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The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of childhood in a country that no longer exists. In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The...
The Whale Rider

The Whale Rider

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A classic novel that became a classic film. An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is...
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins

The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins

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High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by...
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile

Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile

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Sagan's stylish, shimmering and amoral tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera Published when she was only eighteen, Fran oise Sagan's astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse became an...
The Slave

The Slave

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A richly compelling tale of folklore and witchcraft from this modern master, new to Penguin Modern Classics Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre...
Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

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The notorious dark, modern-day fable of New York from this cult master, new to Penguin Modern Classics Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about...
Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn

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Selby Jr's controversial cult classic, new to Penguin Modern Classics Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and...
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins

The Go-Between: Popular Penguins

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When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he beings to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful...
The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show

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Larry McMurtry's hilarious and touching novel, in Penguin Modern Classics for the very first time Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper...
Other Voices, Other Rooms

Other Voices, Other Rooms

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'There is a depth and clarity to his writing that captivates the reader' - Sunday Times When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the...
The God Boy

The God Boy

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I'm a God boy, Sister, 'I said. 'You don t have to worry about me, I'm a God boy.' Jimmy Sullivan believed he was protected by God until his parents...
Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air

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Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back...
The Moon is Down

The Moon is Down

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Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, Steinbeck's fable THE MOON IS DOWN explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy...
Burmese Days

Burmese Days

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With a new introduction by Emma Larkin Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when...
The Age of Reason

The Age of Reason

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Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...
Cannery Row

Cannery Row

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A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern Classics In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful...
Lonesome Traveler

Lonesome Traveler

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Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings, alongside ON THE ROAD, THE TOWN AND THE CITY & THE SUBTERRANEANS As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and...
Voyage in the Dark

Voyage in the Dark

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A tragic tale of a young woman's descent into isolation and despair, inspired by Jean Rhys's own experiences First published in 1934, Voyage in the Dark is the story of...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write....
Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics. Between the First...
Christ Stopped at Eboli

Christ Stopped at Eboli

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'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut...
At Swim-two-birds

At Swim-two-birds

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Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates plots within plots, giving full rein to O'Brien's dancing intellect...
Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

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Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can...
Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano

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It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah...
The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick

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The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven....
Regeneration

Regeneration

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'Pat Barker's novel is not only a vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War. It is a multi-layered exploration of all wars, challenging assumptions about the relationship...