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It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his...

Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The...

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like...

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott...

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her...

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that...

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn...

A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer...

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling...

Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from...

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science...

'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s...

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady...

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and...

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining...

In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their...

Inspired by his own eccentric aunt, Patrick Dennis's Auntie Mame is a madcap comedy, published with an afterword by Matteo...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.

Increasingly disillusioned by the...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.

Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an...

The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during...

The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in...

'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'

Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy...

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences'...

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from...

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of...

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

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains...

A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover, the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and...