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A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

Jane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'

Forty-nine,...

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a...

Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju...

This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth...

What if someone wanted your family dead?

It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked.

The Christmas...

'I saw him taking a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies all fell off him, and, as they were in the very act of...

A letter in blood, a horrifying disappearance…
Two boys, brothers, wake up tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their...

Jane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few...

Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.

'He was afraid to go to sleep. For...

She's faked her profile picture. He's just a fake . . .

When happily divorced Joni finds Ant via a dating app, neither is...

'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her...

W... , Coleridge...

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature....

No goodbye

When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor,...

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet...

Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century...

This, the eagerly awaited link between The Forest House and The Mists Of Avalon, spans the creation of Avalon itself, right up to...

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

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

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village,...

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity...

Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party.

But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace.

No bodies. No...

Assassin's Creed: Revelations is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series.

Older, wiser and more...

When three teens are landed with a community service order after an incident involving a spray can and an inconveniently timed...

Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet...

I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if...

From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and...

A tragicomedy, a satire on materialism and a scream of pain and injustice, Timon of Athens depicts Shakespeare's greatest...

A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics...