Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Rachel Donohue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Power. Jealousy. Desire. Twenty-five years ago, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl and her charismatic teacher disappeared without trace... When Louisa arrives...

Author: Iris Murdoch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A novel that offers uplifting lessons in love - now republished as part of the Vintage Classics Murdoch Series...

Author: Alan Trotter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the...

Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 Marian Keyes, author of Sushi for Beginners and The Other Side of the Story, explores the quirks of love...

Author: Harold Pinter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is...

Author: Dorothy West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An incredible collection of writing - both essays and short stories - spanning the long career of Dorothy West....

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...

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...

Author: Louise Pentland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Meet Robin Wilde: mum, newly-appointed official girlfriend, make-up artist extraordinaire and general plate-spinning, life-juggling, balance-seeking badass. Or so she...

Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A murderer's confession--devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable--which reveals a story of class, education, and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Willy Vlautin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the...

Author: James Frey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Released in 2019 as a major motion picture starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Juliette Lewis 'Inspirational and...

Author: Linn Ullmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood,...

Author: Kate Hamer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Continuing Text's re-release of J.M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Elizabeth Costello is a modern classic...

Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A story of obsessive young love and overwhelming grief from the Booker Prize-winning author - now a Penguin Essential...

Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an...

Author: Sheena Kamal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Nora Watts is being hunted... When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father,...

Author: Jay McInerney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor; his wife Corrine has sacrificed her...

Author: Anita Desai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review Hugo Baumgartner...