Modern Fiction (post 1945)

A special hardback edition of Muarkami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication...

For readers of Station Eleven and Everything I Never Told You, a debut novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world's last birds -...

Everyone has their cross to bear - their swag, their shiralee - and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who...

'Pat Barker's novel is not only a vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War. It is a multi-layered exploration of all wars, challenging assumptions about the relationship...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of a Latin American classic - the enthralling saga of three generations of a proud and passionate family, secret...

A spectacular graphic adaptation of the greatest dystopian novel ever written Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to...

A stylish reissue of the Booker Prize-winning, Golden Booker Prize-shortlisted classic- now with a new introduction by Elif Shafak Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant...

A spellbinding fairytale full of magic and wonder, perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials For a young woman in medieval Russia,...

'Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny' Daily Telegraph Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When...

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...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard...

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...

One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to...

A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world 'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian A...

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...

Jack Reacher, the popular drop-out renegade crusader for justice, returns in a brand-new thriller in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series - across the Atlantic, to Paris, and then to London....

You do not mess with Reacher, in Lee Child's irresistible number one bestseller. ** REACHER SEASON 2- BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE coming soon to Prime video ** \"The invincible Reacher...

Reacher comes to the UK! Dangerous, sexy and invincible. Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away...

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...

Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write, and only Jack Reacher could survive. 'If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the...

The latest masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, now in paperback Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive...

'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...

Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time When newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to...

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...

Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising...

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in...

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the...

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...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and...

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...

new to Modern Classics Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous...

Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into...

Haruki Murakami's first two novels, available for the first time in English in Vintage's Murakami backlist style. Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. 'If you're the sort of guy who...

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....

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...

'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A moving, thoughtful story of...

A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years...

A mesmerising new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient. **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory,...

A deluxe hardback edition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the multi-award-winning and bestselling YA classic beloved by so many. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking...

A diabolically funny and macabre novel by the brilliantly wacky Kurt Vonnegut - now rejacketed with brilliant, witty new look for the backlist 'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian...

ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more...

Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at...

Three of the John Fowles' most popular novels, rejacketed with a vibrant new modern design WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVIE WYLD 'There is not a page in this first novel...

Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....

An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some...

An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her...

This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and...