Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the...

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's personal account of life on the streets beautifully...

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition...

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

'The unhappiness that I need and long for... is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the...

The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The...

'Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same . . .'

The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be...

From the day that Sheba Hart joins the staff at St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a...

'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .'

In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's...

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls

The first novel in Pat...

'Do not open - destroy.'

The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's...

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is...

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped...

Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is...

Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal...

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now...

A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first...

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that...

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines...

Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin...

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait...

'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom...

"As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about...

Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the...

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly...

'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd...

'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers...

'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy...

he spell-binding novel that was inspired by Jane Eyre

'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now......

'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she...