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

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

'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...

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

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...

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

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

"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...

'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...

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

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly...

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search...

A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever...

The internationally bestselling novel.
Adapted into a feature film with elijah wood.
From the bestselling author of Here I Am,...

'My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the cafe of the town's only cinema . . .'

One hot summer a stranger...

Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the...

On 15 November 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found...

'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody...