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1940. An unassuming English engineer has travelled to Turkey on business. And somebody wants him dead.


It all began when...

Penny Calvin has questions.

Placed for adoption sixteen years ago, she's desperate to get to know the mother she's never...

Prosecutor Ava Knight always plays by the rules.

Until she meets fifteen-year-old Lily Hawthorne, accused of stabbing hotel...

'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne

There is no real...

Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of...

They suddenly found themselves in an impersonal world, where everyday words no longer seemed to mean anything, where the most...

They ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it. Through a break in the clouds a little later,...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's...

In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare...

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did,...

'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then'
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross...

Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke...

Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.

The Playbook is an expose of the...

The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the village...

Cornwall, 1940.

In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks.

Was it a tragic...

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...

Taken...

CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes.

When...

If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry. So she...

On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years...

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after...

Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six...

About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her...

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and...

'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town...

Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead.
Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.

Allen...

William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.

'What...

In Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard's infamous and controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant...

Set against a Southern Californian backdrop, the stories are rich with suspense, violence and tragedy, and each comes laced with...