Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Get ready for the most exciting count-down of your life! Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year prize, and chosen by the Sunday Times as...

What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? RODHAM is the latest addictive Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of AMERICAN WIFE, perfect for summer reading. BY...

One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld titles introducing new readers to the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett. Death comes to us all. When he came to...

The First Discworld novel. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the...

Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on...

The highly anticipated debut novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of We Were Eight Years in Power - a story of bondage, freedom, and love Every slave plantation is a...

For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this thrilling masterpiece Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of...

Now a majo 2020 Hulu series starring Zoe Kravitz Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain...

Drones, murder and a time-travelling crime - a thrilling return to science fiction from the bestselling author of Neuromancer Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce...

A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction 'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.' Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New...

An exciting new cover design brings this essential existential classic into the twenty-first century Meursault leads an unremarkable, bachelor life in Algiers, but his sudden involvement in a violent confrontation...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your...

A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this...

Based around a series of blistering confessions, The Fall was described by Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of Camus' novels Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul...

Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided...

A gem of a book about the aggravations and great joys of cats from a literary master In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first...

The acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, reissued with a new PMC jacket Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer- this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child,...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury,...

Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters...

The book that shocked a generation and introduced Kathy Acker as the enfant terrible of the 1980s literary underground This is a book about feminism, capitalism, sex, punk, youth, the...

The Spy tells the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price. When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was...

Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander's compelling novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a land as richly diverse as the secrets it keeps. In the...

The Riders, the novel that brought Tim Winton his first Booker Prize shortlisting, charts an odyssey across Europe, a transfixing journey through the underworld of every lover's nightmare. Fred Scully...

New edition When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior....

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the...

Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic...

Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School- firstly by being the wrong sort, with...

The final novel featuring Smiley, Le Carre's most enduring character, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training...

A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is...

Reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics as part of our Paul Bowles relaunch, with a new introduction by Paul Theroux 'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge...

"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...

Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including...

Anais Nin's classic exploration of love and sex in 1930s Paris The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his...

NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of...

A heartbreaking stunner of a novel from the UK's biggest-selling writer of women's fiction "I employ this thing called The Shovel List." "A shovel...?" "No. A Shovel List. It's more...

She is Britain's most successful and loved female writer. And this is her biggest paperback yet. June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday . . . And into...

Dickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed...

That Eye, the Sky is Tim Winton's luminous novel about a boy's vision of the world beyond, and about finding a way through cataclysm. That Eye, the Sky is Tim...

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and...

The gripping new thriller from the number-one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Thirst. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns...

The ingenious, hilarious new novel from award-winning writer Elif Batuman - 'It's a novel about being young and stupid that's both wise and clever - and it's a treat' Evening...

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**...

A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from...

The first title in the acclaimed Inspector Wallander series. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches...

The exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love that will stop you in your tracks Discover the exquisitely told tragic tale of thwarted love behind the major new film adaptation...

A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...

Re-jacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, Saturday is a gripping novel centering around the London anti-war protest in 2003 from the Booker prize-winning Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan....