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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,...

Maigret heads to a small seaside town where the residents are closing ranks to hide the truth When a school teacher from near La Rochelle asks Maigret for help to...

The discovery of a dismembered body leads Maigret into one of his strangest cases yet When a man's headless body is pulled from the Canal Saint Martin, Maigret and his...

A gripping novel about the corrupt and avaricious world of politics, newly translated as part of the Maigret series. Was Maigret wrong? From one point of view, certainly, because he...

A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series- the inspector uncovers some poisonous family politics. The moon must have risen above the mist, which was now faintly incandescent, and, when...

Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola...

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...

At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that he had encountered death itself. These seven compelling stories explore, in...

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...

Three stories that form Flaubert's last complete work and reveal him as a master of the short story form. First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions...

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage,...

One of the greatest of the Rougon-Macquart series, Zola's prostitute represents the destructiveness of a corrupt and decaying society Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives...

Three young friends are shot dead on Midsummer's Eve. Then one of Kurt Wallander's colleagues is murdered. Is it the same killer? It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet...

In this gripping thriller, Kurt Wallander's furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger. Midsummer approaches, and Inspector...

A heart-stopping thriller from the international crime fiction star and top 5 bestseller that the Independent has called 'The next Stieg Larsson'. 'A cracking good thriller...that will keep you gripped...

A European classic of comic literature This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and...

An enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist. He is...

'The last major event in the history of the novel' Italo Calvino In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to...

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...

The first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich...

One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning...

A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant is found dead in the condemned building where he had been...

An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help. Against the judgement of...

While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower...

A new translation of this novel set in a tranquil town on the dutch coast, part of the Maigret series 'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing...

Architect Carmine and translator Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their own, they are friends....

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in...

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale - a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in...

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a...

'The classic literal-metaphorical journey' Guardian A classic meditation on artistic creation and the quest for spiritual transcendence from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Siddhartha In the aftermath of the Great...

'A masterly performance' Evening Standard Joseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Anselm Eibenschtz...

In this melancholy and delicately written Japanese classic, a student befriends a reclusive elder at a beach resort, who he calls Sensei. As the two grow closer, Sensei remains unwilling...

Shiori knows at heart that she's a troubadour. She may be completely tone-deaf, but she won't let that stop her living a life dedicated to music. Even when her dominant...

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates be-tween turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon...

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window...

On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite...

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons:she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket, visits friends and...

'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...' So Roth begins his novel about...

Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous intentions, family...

An astonishing and moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesOther people don't...

Under strange circumstances, a young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his girlfriend into the home to care for her. On shaky new ground, the girl struggles,...

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner...

Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead. When...

Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his time online, researching the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon . Living on an allowance from his...

When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crecy, he is indifferent to her beauty. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high...

'A monstrous and brilliant book' - Philip Pullman When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner...

Spark is a story about art and friendship, about countless bizarre drunken conversations and how far it's acceptable to go for a laugh. A novel about comedy that's as moving...