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The Tailor of Panama
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The latest title from the bestselling author John le Carre to come into Penguin Modern Classics Harry Pendel...
Portnoy's Complaint
Author: Philip Roth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written' Guardian Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander Portnoy (1933-) A disorder...
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 combines Peter Carey's bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three...
The Catherine Wheel
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 340 The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch.........
The Most Venerable Book (Shang Shu)
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A leader Should be loved. Who Should be feared? The people.' The Most Venerable Book is one of the most...
Two Brothers
Author: Ben Elton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 A deeply poignant novel set in Berlin between 1920 and 1945 Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers....
The Rosie Project
Author: Graeme Simsion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The international bestseller. Over three million copies sold worldwide. Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who...
The Rebel
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Translated by Anthony Bower With an Introduction by Oliver Todd 'A conscience with style' V.S. Pritchett The Rebel (1951)...
The Other Side of the Story
Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction. 'There are three sides to every story. Your side, their...
The Cardboard Crown
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 266 Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of...
The Mystery of Mercy Close
Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A stunning novel starring the legendary and beloved Walsh sisters from the No. 1 bestselling author of Rachel's Holiday,...
The Green Road
Author: Anne Enright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner. A book about family,...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Introduced byPeter Goldsworthy Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature 2003 She pouts. I was expecting more of a story,...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...
Big Sur
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...
Arrow of God
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...
Lord Jim
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at...
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino,...
The Tin Drum
Author: Gunter Grass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A new translation of the landmark novel with a new foreword by the author On his third birthday Oskar...
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed, collides with a Range Rover...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Author: Mark Haddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A truly remarkable novel about an autistic boy. 'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of...
The Heart of the Matter
Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being. In human relations, kindness...
The Emigrants
Author: W.G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An innovative twentieth-century classic from a major European author At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives...
Sushi for Beginners
Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction 'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'Hot-shot...
Disgrace
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...
Showtime!
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Judy Nunn's latest bestselling novel will take you from the cotton mills of England to the magnificent theatres of...
Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. A seductive...
Lust
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Roald Dahl takes on Lust . . . From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail,...
Illywhacker
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Peter Carey's brilliant, hilarious, Booker Prize-shortlisted Illywhacker is the novel that brought him to international intention. Herbert Badgery is...
Bliss
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages...
Revolutionary Road
Author: Richard Yates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and...
Maybe the Horse Will Talk
Author: Elliot Perlman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 What if the only way to keep your job was to antagonise your boss? 'I am absolutely terrified of...
Actress: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020
Author: Anne Enright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In...
The Child In Time
Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict...
Centre Stage
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Stars shine on centre stage. But what secrets lie hidden in the wings? Stars shine on centre stage. But...
Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Imagine if...
The Russia House
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In his first post-glasnost novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...
The Sheltering Sky
Author: Paul Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they...
The Street Sweeper
Author: Elliot Perlman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK) 'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK) How...
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...
A Room with a View
Author: E.M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 E.M. Forster's vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England,...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own...
Visions of Gerard
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 One of the final works in Kerouac's 13-book Proustian memoir to join the Penguin Modern Classics. Unique among Jack...
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in...
Three Cheers For The Paraclete
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 284 Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows...