When barrister and author Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of farming....

A body in the pool. A friend who might be an enemy. A vacation they'll never forget . . .

Linden has always felt like an...

Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects....

When a young man wakes up bruised and beaten, with no memory of who he is or where he came from.

The press immediately dub him...

Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up...

'Do you need my help?'
It was the first question he asked.
They called him when they had nowhere else to turn.

As a boy Evan...

Two sisters, Keely and Nina, disappear without a trace.

Days later, Keely comes back, covered in blood.

It's not her blood....

A new translation of George Simenon's taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new...

One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man

Set...

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

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in...

During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'

Forty-nine,...

'I saw him taking a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies all fell off him, and, as they were in the very act of...

A letter in blood, a horrifying disappearance…
Two boys, brothers, wake up tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their...

Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities.

'He was afraid to go to sleep. For...

She's faked her profile picture. He's just a fake . . .

When happily divorced Joni finds Ant via a dating app, neither is...

'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her...

No goodbye

When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor,...

This, the eagerly awaited link between The Forest House and The Mists Of Avalon, spans the creation of Avalon itself, right up to...

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

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

Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party.

But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace.

No bodies. No...

When three teens are landed with a community service order after an incident involving a spray can and an inconveniently timed...

Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet...

I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new...

Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting...