Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona of the 1920s and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. It's a spellbinding...

Apple TV + tie-in of the multi-million-copy No. 1 Sunday Times, No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 international bestseller and prizewinner THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Soon to be an...

A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner. A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner....

From 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent) and the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize- a novel about creative origin and aspiration, inspired by the author's own...

A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) 'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly...

Maurice Swift is an aspiring novelist struggling to come up with the story that will make his name, and he doesn't care where that story comes from. Even if he...

From award-winning crime writer Margaret Hickey comes a collection of captivating short stories celebrating the Australian countryside. Margaret Hickey's Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke,...

The gripping historical romantic adventure from the bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. One woman's ambition Sydney, 1925- When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Sweeting, dreams of selling...

IN CINEMAS NOW, from Leah Purcell, named as one of the 100 figures shaping Australia's creative future. The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A stunningly compelling novel, where compassion meets bigotry, hatred meets love, and ultimately despair meets hope on an isolated island off Western Australia. LOST AT SEA...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Experience the Ghan's historic journey across Australia's outback, where ancient Aboriginal heritage and modern ambition collide, in a tale as rich and vast as the landscape...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A sweeping saga of three families in Tasmania, from its golden era and Federation's birth to the poignant pride and sacrifice of World War I. AN...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A captivating saga of four lifelong friends navigating the waves of change in Western Australia's transformative decades, from the idyllic 1950s to the dynamic 90s. PERTH'S...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Step into the steamy and cut-throat world of television , where the dazzling lights of fame cast deep shadows of intrigue, ambition, and scandal. TELEVISION'S GOLDEN...

combines Peter Carey's bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three not in either. The Fat Man in History and Other Stories...

One of Peter Carey's most searingly inventive novels yet. Wise, funny, profound. Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and...

Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the...

WINNER OF THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION 'Haunting . . . Beautifully written' The New York Times Book...

In his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho interweaves adventure, philosophy and the true stories of his own life to give readers an essential book for our time. A...

'Thomas Keneally is one of the historical novel's most expert practitioners, and his new book sees him back on the form that produced Schindler's Ark. Giles Foden, Guardian 'Thomas Keneally...

The very first book by number one bestseller Lee Child, which introduces his iconic hero Jack Reacher. 'This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose...

A 2021 pick for Barack Obama and the New York Times, Intimacies is a dazzling exploration of truth and power 'An incredible writer' Natalie Portman 'One of my favourite novels...

Playtime is over as Marian's Sunday Times No. 1 blockbuster comes out in paperback MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey. Three very different...

Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she get from Napoleon's side to the Australian bush? Whilst living in...

'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' - Mick Herron- our hero Jack Reacher's quest into his father's past climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb...

The 21st Jack Reacher thriller by number-one bestselling author Lee Child takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he's not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley...

The bestselling classic novel repackaged with an introduction by Barry Miles, author of the definitive Bukowski biography YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE...

An unforgettable novel that shows how easily a life can be ruined when the police and the media are allowed to run rampage through a person's life. It resonates as...

'The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale' Cosmopolitan Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict...

Get ready for the most exciting count-down of your life! Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year prize, and chosen by the Sunday Times as...

What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? RODHAM is the latest addictive Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of AMERICAN WIFE, perfect for summer reading. BY...

One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld titles introducing new readers to the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett. Death comes to us all. When he came to...

The First Discworld novel. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the...

Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on...

The highly anticipated debut novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of We Were Eight Years in Power - a story of bondage, freedom, and love Every slave plantation is a...

For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this thrilling masterpiece Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of...

Now a majo 2020 Hulu series starring Zoe Kravitz Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain...

A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction 'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.' Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New...

An exciting new cover design brings this essential existential classic into the twenty-first century Meursault leads an unremarkable, bachelor life in Algiers, but his sudden involvement in a violent confrontation...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your...

A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this...

Based around a series of blistering confessions, The Fall was described by Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of Camus' novels Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul...

Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided...

A gem of a book about the aggravations and great joys of cats from a literary master In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first...

The acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, reissued with a new PMC jacket Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer- this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child,...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury,...

New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three,...

Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters...