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Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

"The more I know of the world, the more am I...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

'... an agility...

The companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the...

First published in 1949, The Golden Apples is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana,...

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that...

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn...

A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer...

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling...

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science...

The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a...

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a...

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it...

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

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable...

Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet...

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work...

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its...

Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance...

Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the...

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied...

Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's...

Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as...