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'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma;...

When Celeste loses her best friend Hannah, she'll do anything to keep her spirit alive.

So when she uncovers her friend's old...

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'

Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet...

'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler...

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to...

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

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...