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As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work...

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.

Jane Austen's...

A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of...

Combining thrilling adventure with scientific facts and a wonder at the natural world, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is...

A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he...

She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly,...

Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then,...

Dickens's great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin edition

This is the novel Dickens regarded as his...

A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations

'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths...

He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling...

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe

In this masterly synthesis, Arthur...

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful,...

A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood.

One by one the lighted windows...

'A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . .
there are days like...

'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of...

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be...

Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial...

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well-known tales, 'Babette's...

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'

Unknown...

Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra...

The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Liege, book ten in the new...

'Let's be clear that it's not your professionalism which I question. If you understand nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing,...

It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone had...

'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in...

'She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the...

The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda...

What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have...

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty...

A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War

'Men are made to be husbands,...