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Mother Night

Mother Night

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A diabolically funny and macabre novel by the brilliantly wacky Kurt Vonnegut - now rejacketed with brilliant, witty new...
Only the Animals

Only the Animals

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Author: Ceridwen Dovey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal worst and our creative best, Only the Animals asks us to...
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...
A Ladder to the Sky

A Ladder to the Sky

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Author: John Boyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Maurice Swift is an aspiring novelist struggling to come up with the story that will make his name, and...
Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
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...
A Room Made of Leaves

A Room Made of Leaves

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Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Kate Grenville's latest bestselling novel, now in a beautiful paperback edition What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John...
The Big Sleep and Other Novels

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

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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...
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...
The Cedar Tree

The Cedar Tree

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Author: Nicole Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander's compelling novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a...
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

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Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...
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...
The Prisoner of Heaven

The Prisoner of Heaven

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Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind takes us back to the shadowy streets of Barcelona...
Orlando

Orlando

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has...
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

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Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

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Author: Philip Terry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for...
Kittyhawk Down

Kittyhawk Down

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Author: Garry Disher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 THE SECOND INSPECTOR CHALLIS AND SERGEANT DESTRY NOVEL An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an...
Confessions of a Mask

Confessions of a Mask

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Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his...
The Labyrinth of the Spirits

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

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Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The final instalment of the internationally acclaimed and New York Times bestselling series that began with The Shadow...
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...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

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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...
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...
Outlander: (Outlander 1)

Outlander: (Outlander 1)

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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...
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...
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,...
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...
Birdsong

Birdsong

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Author: Sebastian Faulks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series style Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love...
The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series ** THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

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Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 One of the most controversial and infamous books of modern times Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked...
The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song

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Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN...
The Outsiders

The Outsiders

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Author: S.E. Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E....
The Plague

The Plague

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...
Ada or Ardor

Ada or Ardor

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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...
The Garden of Hopes and Dreams

The Garden of Hopes and Dreams

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Author: Barbara Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From award-winning novelist Barbara Hannay comes a timely and uplifting story about the importance of community and connection. Can...
The Collected Short Stories

The Collected Short Stories

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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...
Into the Water: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Into the Water: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Paula Hawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The addictive No. 1 psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times...
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...
A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust

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Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...
Travels With My Aunt: (Vintage Voyages)

Travels With My Aunt: (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us...
Spirits of the Ghan

Spirits of the Ghan

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Master storyteller Judy Nunn has now sold over 1 million books worldwide. In this spellbinding No.1 bestseller she takes...
The Angel's Game

The Angel's Game

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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...
The Animals In That Country

The Animals In That Country

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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...