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'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither...

What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his...

This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club. A...

He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming...

Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive.

Together, we were much more...

'You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown...

The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for...

In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the...

Surrounded by the dramatic beauty of Guernsey, a teenager discovers a secret and finds his betrayal has the power to ruin adult...

'People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, when I was having my coffee and croissants, it...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s...

It wasn't a traditional painter's smock that Madam Jonker was wearing. It was more a Dominican's monk's habit, the fabric as...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most...

When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the...

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.


A well-dressed, wealthy woman has...

Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of...

A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI...

A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new...

The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.

Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society . ....

'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or,...