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Charlie Ashanti, the hero of Lionboy, speaks cat - the language of all cats wild and domestic alike. His unusual talent helps him...

'In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart ...'

A deeply moving and unforgettable portrait...

Ahlberg... , Ahlberg...

A small boy who has been kidnapped by brigands, passes a dark and stormy night in their cave weaving for them incredible stories...

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with...

Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

'"She was a brazen hussy."
"She wasn't. - And she...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Warden by Anthony Trollope

'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

If life had no love in it, what else was there...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'Lady Audley uttered a long, low,...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen

'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded...

The companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the...

Evan S. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of...

In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic...

Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty...

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the...

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his...

Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The...

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like...

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott...

First published in 1949, The Golden Apples is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana,...

Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by...

Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune....

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her...

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that...

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick...