An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin

In Mad,...

A haunting tale of a fourteen-year-old boy's coming of age in a political dystopia, with an introduction by Colm Tуibнn

Death...

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it...

Retired teacher Edgar Hopkins lives for the thrill of winning poultry prizes. But his narrow world is shattered when he learns...

'Rugby is great for the soul,' he writes, 'but terrible for the body.'

Rugby hurts. It demands mental resilience and...

Driven mad by three years of endless phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed...

In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.

However,...

On the cusp of adulthood, three young people are about to make the most momentous decision of their lives.

Anita lives in...

Arty has always lived in the Clearing, a commune hidden in the forests of south India. But her happy life, separate from the rest...

Make a loved one smile with this classic Christmas read - a perfect stocking filler

'Christmas Day was organized by Lady...

The incredible sequel to sci-fi thriller Warcross by bestselling author Marie Lu.

Return to the immersive, action-packed world...

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See

Rome, 1944. Robert is a...

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.

At a Hollywood party, a...

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'

To...

'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others'

Tod Hackett is a...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

Hidden away in the Record Department...

'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am...

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in...

'All children, except one, grow up.'

It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the...

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'

The French Terror is raging, and few are safe...

' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but...

The gripping, jaw-dropping rise and fall of Sir Philip Green, the self-styled 'king of the high street'

Sir Philip Green is no...

'I will not read it; I should never sleep again'

A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong,...

'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day'

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa...

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The...

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise,...

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover...