Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an...

Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama

The Cold War is over and retired secret...

One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man

Set...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'

Forty-nine,...

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a...

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village,...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna...

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did,...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic...

Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English,...

Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.

'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone,...

In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The...

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'

At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s...

A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final...

'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't...

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

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

Freud... , Breuer...

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time...

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'

Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet...

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...

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.

'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on...

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of...

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