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'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out',...

In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that...

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with...

Lifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories...

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything.

An unlikely trio: Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of...

Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the...

Without even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.
Living with her adored brother, Christian, she divides...

Discover five short stories from the bestselling author of Trainspotting.
In 'Rattlesnakes', three young Americans find...

Desai... , Morrison...

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.

The story of...

This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And...

My name’s Johanna Morrigan. I’m fourteen, and I’ve just decided to kill myself.

I don’t really want to die, of course! I just...

Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects,...

I'm Johanna Morrigan. It's 1995. I'm nineteen and I live in the epicentre of Britpop. Parklife!

My unrequited love, John Kite,...

From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted writer of Italian Ways and Europa, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in...

A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the...

Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides...

To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for...

Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father...

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent...

Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing...

Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue...

Rube never loved any of them. He never cared about any of them. He just wanted each one because she was next, and why not take...

In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence.

Into this tumultuous...

I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine

After years away from her...

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad...

As the 1982 school year begins, Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his sixth year as headteacher. Nora Pratt...

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans...

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina...