Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 Turning

The Turning

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Winton's The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling...
Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...
The Fall

The Fall

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his...
The Ice Palace

The Ice Palace

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Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...
Rodham: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller asking: What if Hillary hadn't married Bill?

Rodham: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller asking: What if Hillary hadn't married Bill?

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Author: Curtis Sittenfeld Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? RODHAM is the latest addictive Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from...
Blood and Guts in High School

Blood and Guts in High School

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Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The book that shocked a generation and introduced Kathy Acker as the enfant terrible of the 1980s literary underground...
The Waves

The Waves

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...
The Parisian

The Parisian

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Author: Isabella Hammad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) 'A...
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....
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 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...
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...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

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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...
Mr Loverman: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

Mr Loverman: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

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Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Carribean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Barrington Jedidiah...
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 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...
The Circle

The Circle

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Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Circle runs everything - all your internet activity in one easy, safe and visible place. No wonder it...
The Water Dancer

The Water Dancer

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Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The highly anticipated debut novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of We Were Eight Years in Power - a...
The Watch Tower

The Watch Tower

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Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Joan London Winner, Patrick White Award 1996 Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently...
Time Must Have a Stop

Time Must Have a Stop

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Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The novel Huxley considered to be his greatest achievement; an absorbing fusion of philosophical exploration and colourful narrative Sebastian...
Fear

Fear

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring...
Factotum

Factotum

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Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 NEW LOOK FOR THE CLASSIC NOVEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEELI CHERKOVSKI Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and...
The Spy

The Spy

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Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Spy tells the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and...
The General in His Labyrinth

The General in His Labyrinth

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first...
Roots

Roots

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Author: Alex Haley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins- a powerful memoir, a...
Interzone

Interzone

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Author: William S. Burroughs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Interzoneshows the evolution of William Burroughs from the terse, fiercely confessional writer ofJunkyto the wild, brutal fantasist ofNaked...
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

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Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and...
A Spy In The House Of Love

A Spy In The House Of Love

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Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extraordinary novel of passion and discovery from Anais Nin, the master of erotic fiction Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise,...
All The Green Year

All The Green Year

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Author: Don Charlwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 286 Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I...
The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans

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Author: M.L. Stedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This mesmerizing Australian novel has been a bestselling book around the world, and Hollywood movie rights were recently snapped...