A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'

James Baldwin's impassioned...

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative...

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh...

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces.

'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ......

In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art. a, the first book he wrote, is the result. Transcribed...

'God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage? ... when will I...

Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve...

A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to...

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred...

'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal...

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best...

'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of...

They nicknamed Adah 'the Igbo tigress' at school in Nigeria, she was so fearless. Now she has moved to London to join her...

Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century

'Thank God for...

The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he...

A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family....

Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when...

A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city

In...

In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Antonio Salazar, a journalist is coming...

The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame, reflecting on the uncertainties, memories, mistakes and mysteries of...

Spare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjell Askildsen capture all the...

The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab...

Alternate history meets Cold War thriller in a vintage Len Deighton escapade

11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?

A...

A sweeping portrait of one Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars
Peter and Paul, the two sons of German...

Downtown LA. Streetwise lawyer Mickey Murphy has a shabby office in a low-rent district, an ex who bleeds him dry and the kind of...

A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the...