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Reissued on the 70th anniversary of its first publication by Hamish Hamilton 'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as...

The dazzling, unforgettable conclusion to Ali Smith's tour de force, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their...

Unmissable third instalment in the bestselling, critically adored, dazzling inventive novel cycle, the Seasonal Quartet What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north,...

Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the 'Seasonal' cycle, following the Man Booker-shortlisted Autumn Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so...

'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-...

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...

A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works in 2014 When a witch doctor prophesizes a plague of rabies, Marquis...

Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time In his younger days, Sim n Bolivar swept the Spanish back...

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...

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...

Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time 'It was inevitable- the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author of Swimming Home Two women arrive in a village on the...

'Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre has done it again for our nasty new age' The Times An...

Exuberantly funny and deeply moving, a monumental American novel about family, identity and modern life Jacob and Julia Bloch have a problem. While they've been coaxing Jacob's grandfather into a...

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...

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...

'Gripping. The master at her best' Daily Telegraph The No 1 bestseller 'Don't you dare be happy, you bastard. That's what I thought when I heard. Don't you dare be...

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...

A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction 'A wonderful, subtle, hilarious and highly sophisticated novel' Evening Standard The agent- Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has...

A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her...

Enter a sweet but sinister world where fact and fiction merge... 'My name is Eva, which means \"life\", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born...

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...

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...

An uproarious exploration of Carribean immigrant experience from one of the great writers of the twentieth century Moses thinks he's got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is...

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...

A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's...

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 mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European writer 'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles Times A dreamlike novel of...

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,...

Stella Gibbons' hilarious comic novel of rural life, new to Penguin Modern Classics When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend...

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,...

New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three,...

A devastating semi-autobiographical novel and the first volume of Kerouac's memoir cycle Gerard Duluoz was born in 1917, 'a sickly little kid with a rheumatic heart'. Based on Jack Kerouac's...

A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating...

A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family...

Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art 'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists...

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...

Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity 'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the...

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...

A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and new to Penguin Modern Classics A half-starved young Russian man in a...

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...

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...

A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists In 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true. He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai first for...

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 dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows,...