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

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe

In this masterly synthesis, Arthur...

A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood.

One by one the lighted windows...

'A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . .
there are days like...

'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...

Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial...

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well-known tales, 'Babette's...

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'

Unknown...

The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Liege, book ten in the new...

'Let's be clear that it's not your professionalism which I question. If you understand nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing,...

It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone had...

'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in...

'She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the...

The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda...

What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have...

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty...

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...

The second book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of...

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,...

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

A critically acclaimed tale of abuse and betrayal in America's deep South

Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth...

A wonderful new selection of Henry James's short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael...

A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in...

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny

'There had been a moment...