His whole nation is celebrating what is the worst day of his life Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he’s a hero. Billy and the rest of Bravo Company were filmed defeating Iraqi…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM. Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble…
`Shriver’s intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining’ FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author…
THE FIRST SAGA IN EVIE GRACE’S MAIDS OF KENT TRILOGY. ‘An intriguing tale of family relationships and of finding love a second time around . . . I’ll be sure to look out for the…
The storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Stardust, is one dazzling display in the variety of Smoke and Mirror’s original and brilliant short pieces….
Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman – a professor of black magic – arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he…
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun….
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt ‘Papa Doc’ and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown…
The cult classic that can still change your life… Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart – and in some ways changes the world as…
‘Scotland’s answer to Game of Thrones’ Herald THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. As seen on Amazon Prime TV. What if your future was the past? 1946, and Claire Randall goes to the…
The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells ‘Death!’ I shouted. ‘Death is coming! Death!’ In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange…
‘Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader’s soul’ William S. Burroughs ‘Kathy Acker’s writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can…
From the author of The Gustav Sonata In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His…
‘Mercurially funny, playful and mischievous’ Ali Smith ‘I was in heaven reading this book. I think she writes like an angel . . . just blissful’ Stephen Fry A novel of ‘pure delight’ (Claire Tomalin)…
A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. The nameless and beautiful narrator…
