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It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays,...

As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work...

She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly,...

The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the...

He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling...

'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of...

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be...

A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War

'Men are made to be husbands,...

Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three...

A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming in nineteenth-century Spain
One of the...

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

In these stories,...

The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.

Not...

A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor...

A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane.

Charming,...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation

Very...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot

"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her,...

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is...

It's 1946. The war is over and Europe lies in ruins. Fourteen year old Felix dreams of finding happiness elsewhere. When he's...

She will become a legend but first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning . . .

Diana is...

The blockbuster DC Icons series that began with Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman, Marie Lu's Batman, and Sarah J. Maas's Catwoman...

Kittie Lacey is the best hairdresser in all the land.

It's almost time for the Flower Festival and Kitty Lacey's salon is...

Kittie Lacey is the best hairdresser in all of Fairyland. . .

A brave, stylish heroine for whom no tangle is too troublesome...

I've known you since you started.
I've seen a thing or two . . .
. . . or three or four or five or six!
In fact, I've seen a...

A reissue of a much-loved adventure which has stood the test of time and is as exciting today as when it was first published...

Ahlberg... , Ahlberg...

A beautiful brand new cased board book version of this classic picture book by the iconic Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each Peach...

Where can you hide if you're running from yourself?

In bunkers and strongholds across the world, people are celebrating....

3 billion lives at stake. 2 people who can save them. 1 secret hidden in their DNA.

A breathtaking debut series about one...