For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our...

'I am myself my own fever and pain'
Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their...

'Who would name a child Sunshine, then give her away?'
Chrissie has always wanted to be a mother. After months of trying to...

Three friends.
Three 'perfect' lives (or so they pretend).
Here comes Trouble

Ronke wants Happily Ever After and 2.2. kids....

In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society...

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.

For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to...

America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it...
Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer…'
Some moments...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart,...

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred...

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page.
A lost child. A Long-kept secret. The house that...

'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her...'

In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel,...

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets,...

Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

The story of...

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a...

Spring, 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street, the bunting is being brought out, and Britain is getting ready to crown...

Move fast. Stay dark.

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace.

She's been assigned to track down a...

Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community

Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too...

Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant...

As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning.

A blind man on his...

Nick and Laura are the hosts: pretending their marriage isn't on the rocks.

Madison and Bastian are the guests: neither is...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frankie is nearly fourteen and teenage life certainly comes with its ups and downs. Her mum is seriously ill with MS and Frankie...

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