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The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Daiyu was named after a ghost…
Little Daiyu is twelve when her parents disappear. So she runs, disguising herself as a boy, to...

Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile....

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative...

Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.

Luna...

The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential...

The Forest House tells of an era of upheaval and change. The Roman grip on their empire was slackening; the Druidic Order - far...

An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge

Lucy is recovering from...

Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after...

'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a...

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But...

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel,...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.

In these four...

Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

Harry 'Preacher'...

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent...

'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'

And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose,...

He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed...

'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The...

Wren was never afraid of the dark. Until she learned that some monsters are real . . .

In deep Louisiana, a serial killer with...

'Happiness - was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth, like when someone shows off about...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Cafe Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time.
But when the...

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an...

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an...

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton....