‘Kerouac’s grittiest novel … sensual and uninhibited’ The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road,…
‘I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever’ Mary Shelley’s dark story of a bereaved man’s disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over…
By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man’s dream and a woman”s nightmare. She is also dead….
In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts to impose his rigid worldview on his family circle,…
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is…
***THE SUNDAY TIMES & NO.1 EBOOK BESTSELLER*** ‘Twisty and gripping’ Erin Kelly ‘I read it in one go’ Marian Keyes ‘I loved it’ Rachel Abbott Loved FRIEND REQUEST? Laura Marshall’s sensational new thriller, THREE LITTLE…
‘This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.’ A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80…
Tilly Dunnage left her hometown of Dungatar in rural Australia under a black cloud of accusation. Years later Tilly, now a couturier for the Paris fashion houses, returns home to make amends with her mentally…
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison’s blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. ‘I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.’ Defeated and embittered by a country…
`Wondering if Into the Water could be as good as The Girl on the Train? It’s better. A triumph.’ Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of I Let You Go The addictive No. 1 psychological thriller from…
‘Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life’ Margaret Drabble Growing up in the world of the ‘five towns’ of industrial England, with their furnaces…
‘Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII’s much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery’ Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne…
A favorite mystery series of Hillary Clinton (as mentioned in What Happened, The New York Times Book Review, and New York Magazine) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Agatha Award Winner for…
Johnny Truant, an employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report….
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions – with artwork and text based on the very first…
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream…
‘Fear no more the heat of the sun.’ Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative…
To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god. But on the inside he’s grief-stricken – his father is dying and he hasn’t told anyone because…
Do you believe in lucky charms? While in Iraq, U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photo, half-buried in the dirt, of a woman. He carries it in his pocket, and from then on his luck…
John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote…
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction 2016. Finalist for the National Book Awards 2015. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an…
