Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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,...

An epic love story that reimagines the tempestuous romance of Wuthering Heights in the sparkling, savage world of elite figure skating Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He...

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....

Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics paperback This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over...

A novel about family, belonging, and the agony of imagining the life you should have had, sparked by the disappearance of a four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl from the blueberry fields of...

The sensuous blockbuster novel by the beloved, bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Impossible to put down' BETTER READING 'A sweeping wartime romantic thriller' HERALD SUN...

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...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...

The 8-million-copy worldwide and Sunday Times #1 bestseller and award-winner featuring the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER, now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson. A...

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...

Four of George Orwell's most essential books, 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia available for the first time in Vintage Classics with...

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list...

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. How far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny?...

The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*...

The magical new bestseller from the author of The Night Circus 'A journey of wonder and imagination' Stylist You are invited to join Zachary on the starless sea- the home...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A mordant story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in American fiction *SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE...

Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he...

True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate...

The film-tie in edition to Jonathan Glazer's award-winning new adaptation THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love....

Welcome to a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize- their freedom. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***NEW NOVEL ATMOSPHERE COMING JUNE 2025 - PREORDER NOW*** From the bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN...

From one of our most provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense 'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral...

The complete Jack Reacher short stories from the number one bestseller Lee Child. \"Including a new novella, the clever, twisty tales reveal that even 13-year-old Reacher was a force to...

This pacy, nailbiting new Jack Reacher thriller is one of Lee Child's darkest and most addictive yet. Prepare to be nailed to your seat by another hair-raising, heart-pounding adventure from...

NEW LOOK FOR THE CLASSIC NOVEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEELI CHERKOVSKI Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to...

A deeply poignant novel set in Berlin between 1920 and 1945 Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As...

Luminous and devastating, a portrait of young manhood and working class life from Observer Best New Novelist Michael Magee Sean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits....

Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she...

'Intelligent, beautiful, healing. Destined to become a classic' Zadie Smith Effia and Esi- two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The...

'The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn... Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I've read this year' Olivia Laing, Observer Autumn 2016-...

The Catcher in the Rye is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. It's Christmas and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the...

A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway In winter, the black ice cracks like a gunshot across the lake, growing thicker...

At long last William S. Burroughs's cult classic and undoubted masterpiece enters Penguin Modern Classics A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is...

New translation by Robin Buss Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and...

Hartley's classic novel of innocence lost, now reissued with a new jacket When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school friend at Brandham Hall, he begins...

A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern Classics Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie,...

Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family...

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...

A superb portrait of a generation of black Americans, this novel established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the twentieth century Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first...

Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and...

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...

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...

A fresh new look for this classic fiction favourite Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer- this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but...

A feast for the senses, a fantasia of magic, mischief and love, The Night Circus is an extraordinary blend of fantasy and reality that will dazzle readers young and old....

A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she...

An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of...

A dizzying collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS,...

'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino....