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

When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the...

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.


A well-dressed, wealthy woman has...

Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of...

A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new...

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

Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.

Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society . ....

'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or,...

'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't...

They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hia, not even the locals brave its...

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona,...

Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'

James Baldwin's impassioned...

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...

Inside lies a secret that won't stay hidden…
The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by discovering...

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The...

When Celeste loses her best friend Hannah, she'll do anything to keep her spirit alive.

So when she uncovers her friend's old...

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...

'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler...

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Daiyu was named after a ghost…
Little Daiyu is twelve when her parents disappear. So she runs, disguising herself as a boy, to...

Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile....

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative...

Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.

Luna...