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Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies,...

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most...

This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas ever since it was first...

Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in...

'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life,...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each...

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of...

In Sodom and Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the...

In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's...

Fred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local...

A baffling case. A mysterious inheritance.

It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then the...

Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by...

'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and...

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

The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writers

'Don't give a damn,' says Zazie, 'what I wanted was to go in the...

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a...

The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's...

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others.

The...

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

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this...