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Meet Stanley Williams: Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life...

A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and...

Bee Beahorn had it all - a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle.

At least, that's...

An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to life

In 1857 when Captain...

The smash-hit romantic comedy from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone

Six people, one big house and the party that...

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and...

Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time

Early in the...

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter...

After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor

In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...

With this novel Sharon Penman moves to a new set of characters and to 12th Century England and the early civil war between...

An absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and...

1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseydale. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains...

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing...

Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters?
Who told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the...

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

Discover a chilling twentieth century classic, delving into the dark and complex heart of childhood

'Some people are coming...

Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...

In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish...

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate...

Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends...

‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’

The narrator,...

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything.

The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception....

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a...

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his...

The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a...

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in...

A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and...

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction.

Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister...