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Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon,...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work...

The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology.

This...

The Last Four Things is the second in Paul Hoffman's remarkable series.

Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell
These are the Last...

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

Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive...

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within a...

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'

James Baldwin's breakthrough...

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid...

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....

E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the...

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

Luna...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'

Richard...

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest...

The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent...

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...

A playful and accessible guide to fermenting at home

James Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens. In Of...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

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...

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early...

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...

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.

'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on...

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

Except trouble is never far away where the...