The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential...

The Forest House tells of an era of upheaval and change. The Roman grip on their empire was slackening; the Druidic Order - far...

An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge

Lucy is recovering from...

Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after...

'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a...

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel,...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.

In these four...

Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

Harry 'Preacher'...

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent...

'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'

And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose,...

He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed...

'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The...

Wren was never afraid of the dark. Until she learned that some monsters are real . . .

In deep Louisiana, a serial killer with...

'Happiness - was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth, like when someone shows off about...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Cafe Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time.
But when the...

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an...

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton....

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the...

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh...

'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a...

A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a...

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret...

'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes,...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.

The...

It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, the...