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

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible...

Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our...

Meet the March Sisters:
· Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love.
· Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer.
·...

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...

Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and...

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

The...

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

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an...

'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...

Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama

The Cold War is over and retired secret...

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

Days later, Keely comes back, covered in blood.

It's not her blood....

Ari Abrams loves working as a TV meteorologist. But unfortunately, her boss is so busy fighting with her ex - who happens to be...

I buried you.
I mourned you.
But now you're back...
A woman walks into a police station.
She has no phone and no ID, just a...

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...

From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's...

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

This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.

It's...

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

The missing pieces in your past can be deadly . . . Will Rebekah find hers before it's too late?

Two missing women....

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...

Jane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at...

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

Forty-nine,...

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a...

Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin...

'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...