'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...

'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of...

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...

A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by...

The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature,...

The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...

A stunning early novel by the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home, Deborah Levy.

Like her namesake...

'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the...

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...

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.

But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will...

Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, The Snow Goose, is set in the wild, desolate Essex...

New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott...

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

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by...

'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...

'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you...'
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her...

Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully...

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

Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and let's not even mention the mysteries of sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny...

If you can persuade a cat you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your way. Jay Heinrichs, award-winning...

Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is...

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate...

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

Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the...

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is...