What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have...

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty...

A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War

'Men are made to be husbands,...

Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three...

The second book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of...

A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming in nineteenth-century Spain
One of the...

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

In these stories,...

The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.

Not...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and...

A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor...

A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane.

Charming,...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation

Very...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher...

A critically acclaimed tale of abuse and betrayal in America's deep South

Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the...

A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in...

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny

'There had been a moment...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot

"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her,...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

'That black figure, with its eyes of fire,...

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is...

The first ever picture-book retelling of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.

'A long, long time ago, before humans even...

She will become a legend but first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning . . .

Diana is...

The blockbuster DC Icons series that began with Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman, Marie Lu's Batman, and Sarah J. Maas's Catwoman...

Where can you hide if you're running from yourself?

In bunkers and strongholds across the world, people are celebrating....

3 billion lives at stake. 2 people who can save them. 1 secret hidden in their DNA.

A breathtaking debut series about one...

A powerful, disturbing thriller reissued in The Originals series of classic teenage fiction.

Martha is twelve - and very...

Just this once. Just this once and no more, I promise.
Please let me get away with it just this once . . .

Tobey wants a...

My name is Callie Rose.
My mum is a Cross - one of the so-called ruling elite.
My dad was a Nought. My dad was a murderer. My...

No one could begin to guess at the depth of the hatred I held for Sephy Hadley. Everything began with her and my brother. And...