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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...

Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to...

Someone wants Jack Ryan Dead - and fast...

Covert operative Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some well-earned R&R when an attempt is...

'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...

It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal.

Except trouble is never far away where the...

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...

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his...

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 international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The...

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,...

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of...

Lamb... , Лэмб Мэри

As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began...

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...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a...

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The...

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

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

Arguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep...

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...

Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years.

Turned out her mother was a really good liar.

After five years...