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...

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a...

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

'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life'
William...

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 Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures.

'My mother died...

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...

It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk...

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

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...

The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

Barry Hines's A...

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...

'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'

Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference....

'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...