Modern Fiction (post 1945)

A special hardback edition of Murakami's mesmerising and strange surreal classic, Kafka on the Shore. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the...

How do you stop a murder when it's already happened? Find out the lengths one woman will go to save her family It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent...

Our Sunshine is the tale of a man whose story outgrew his life. Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly is written with a brilliant...

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of...

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written story of love and the love-sick. Spurned as a young man, Florentino Ariza has a...

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. 'A book to read and...

The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling Australian author of The Secrets of the Huon Wren Broome 2023- when Saskia's free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will,...

WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C....

A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America...

'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Hemingway's great...

E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper new take on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the globe. **AVAILABLE NOW** Relive...

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This...

In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades- What happened to Offred? **THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF...

A wickedly witty cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties, ideal for fans of Richard Osman and Bonnie Garmus. WINNER 2024 Danger Awards - Best Fiction SHORTLISTED...

By addictive bestseller Lee Child, the brand new, action-packed, high-tension Jack Reacher thriller, which sees Reacher, at the end of his long journey, honing in on his target in Virginia...

The taut new thriller from the Sunday Times and New York Times number one bestseller, winner of the Specsavers Crime & Thriller Book of the Year 'A fascinating, swaggeringly confident...

Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . 1....

The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his...

A brilliant new novel about love and marriage, twenty years after the bestselling hit Essays in Love Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but...

A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me...

Ayn Rand's most famous and controversial novel comes to Penguin for the first time Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the...

At long last Ken Kesey's 1962 cult classic novel has entered Modern Classics series. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal...

The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an...

'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant...

In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes...

The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew...

Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. 'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny...

The legendary author of V and Gravity's Rainbow is back with a taut, psychedelic yarn, about the sixties, featuring private eye Doc Sportello... Read the cult classic behind the major...

Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A marvelous hybrid...

A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A mystery story about love, the cosmos...

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among...

Three of the John Fowles' most popular novels, rejacketed with a vibrant new modern design WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR 'A major work of mounting tensions in which the...

'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his...

Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood...

Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a...

A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about...

Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house,...

The controller stood back. 'Right,' he said. 'Spin 'em!' The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down...

In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman no wliving alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide...

'I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann Patchett'One hell of a novel about a good woman on the run with her beautiful boy' Stephen KingFEAR...

'Has a queasily compelling power' The Times'Haunting and visceral as a fairytale' Lilly Dancyger'Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty'...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel-equal parts satire and psychological thriller-that holds a funhouse mirror to the isolated workplace and an age...