Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family -...

Nabokov's 'other' great love story, following an extraordinary relationship across decades and continents Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from...

Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare, jagged stories in which people struggle with change and disintegration. Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare,...

Candice Fox has taken the Australian crime-writing world by storm in the last few years. Eden is the second novel in her award-winning crime series. Winner of the Ned Kelly...

Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF...

From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems... Discover...

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me,...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired...

A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers. 'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy...

'Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny' Daily Telegraph Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When...

Originally published in 2000 to international acclaim, The Last Samurai is a paean to the power of language and learning - dazzling, delighting and inspiring a legion of readers 'Fiercely...

Moving, ribald and semi-autobiographical, Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'Superb' Independent 'Exact and unflinching' Guardian Catching...

The bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and revenge in a 1970s schoolyard. 'A compact and intense read full of twists,...

From the winner of the SMH/Age Best Young Novelist of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year. Growing up can feel like a death...

The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize. Surging out of...

One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to...

Escape to the ocean this summer with the Costa Book of the Year 2020 Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year...

The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and...

A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world 'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian A...

The hilarious, poignant and insightful first novel from the now world-wide bestselling author Claire has everything she ever wanted- a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then,...

Jack Reacher in a taut, cool, sexy pageturner- One Shot was named on of the 50 best crime novels of the past fifty years by The Times. Six shots. Five...

Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters. 'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy...

The very first book by number one bestseller Lee Child, which introduces his iconic hero Jack Reacher. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** \"This was the first...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary since first publication, a new edition of Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel with an introduction by the author. The unforgettable, award-winning debut novel...

A DISAPPEARANCE. A SMALL TOWN. A QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING... Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the...

The bestselling razor-sharp debut novel by the author of Everything I Know About Love He said 'I love you'. And then he disappeared. Things that are going right for Nina...

A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a...

Two people. Ten chances. One perfect love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But...

A powerful, sweeping tale of faith, love and friendship set across Istanbul and Oxford Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside...

'Liz Nugent has a gift for filling us with a terrible fascination for truly horrible people' Val McDermid Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will,...

Reissued on the 70th anniversary of the first publication of The Pursuit of Love by Hamish Hamilton 'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dream, so...

A brilliant new novel about love and marriage, twenty years after the bestselling hit Essays in Love Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but...

Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity 'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the...

An arresting, mysterious, hypnotising novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an...

Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - a timely novel about our obsession with the internet, from one of our greatest storytellers When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the...

A rifle-shot of a novel - crisp, fast, shocking - The Shepherd's Hut is an urgent masterpiece about solitude, unlikely friendship, and the raw business of survival. In one terrible...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Set in Queensland during World War II, this breath-taking historical novel is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over...

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich,...

A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity 'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words...

First new English translation since 1959 by acclaimed translator Robin Buss When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...

A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I...

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends...

New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman...

First new translation since publication of Albert Camus's story collection The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country...

The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an...

Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings. THE DHARMA BUMS appeared just one year after the author's explosive ON THE ROAD had put the Beat Generation on the...

'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York Times With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and...