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One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of...

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction...

In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the...

The ancient sports of murder and myth

Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist....

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published...

Can revelations from the past help them start a new life?

Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna,...

As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed, and...

The year is 1976 and Jack Sheffield never wants to leave his job.

Jack has been the deputy head teacher at Newbridge Primary...

Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter....

Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of their generation. As graduates of the prestigious...

One war, one soldier, one enduring love

1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria on the brink of the Second World War, young...

"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."

An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a...

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming...

Jonasson... , J...

What happened to Lara Marteinsdottir?
Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lara spends the summer working for a couple on the small...

Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation....

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would...

Twins Anna and Adam live in an abandoned commune in a volatile landscape where they prepare for the world-ending event they...

The final thrilling part of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, Reached is the sequel to Matched and Crossed by Ally Condie....

The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants...

Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.

'She...

Every time the lights go out, someone dies...

The TARDIS lands at an academy for top athletes, all hoping to be chosen for the...

"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."
Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his...

The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the...

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving...

For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them— and poets have...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey...

Melancholy and funny, personal and surreal, Passing for Human is a neurological coming-of-age story in which Liana Finck goes in...

Passion, war and deadly secrets . . .

Wartime France, 1944

Trust absolutely no one.

This is the only advice newly...

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that...