Classic Fiction

"Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end—a labyrinth without a clue—an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o' the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps—the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the New York Herald when Pierre was...

I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ... A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador, obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition...

When Paddington starts to make a list of all the nice things he can think of about being a bear and living with the Browns, he is sure to include the garden. Paddington feels very lucky to have such a nice garden, especially as he has his own little patch in it to keep him out of mischief! But when...

Our Sister Killjoy invites readers to join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic. 'A wondrous discovery.' – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.' – Tsitsi Dangarembga 'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the...

The first mystery book in a rollicking new historical cozy series! When Lady Adelaide's dinner party is visited by lady death, she'll have to partner with the irksome spirit of her dead husband to crack the case... A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh...

Figure out whodunnit in this exciting new 1930s crime series that whisks you away to the most gorgeous escapist destinations! A beautiful French estate A wedding A murder And a novice detective intent on solving her first case! Fresh from teaching at her prestigious Swiss boarding school, Miss Atalanta Ashford suddenly finds herself the most eligible young lady in society...

These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder, and obsession. A talented and spiteful painter is given over to depravity in pursuit of artistic brilliance. In the depths of hell, a robber spies a single spider's thread being...

A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons. Literary comfort and joy. It got me out of mourning for the Cazelet Chronicles. - Meg Mason (author of Sorrow and Bliss) A stylish and penetrating comedy of manners. My favourite Christmas book...

'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times 'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday Times And the black man and the white were like two men alone in the world .... Xuma will never forget the day he arrived in the Johannesburg...

From Australia's master storyteller comes an uplifting story of new and old friendships, letting go of the past and looking to the future… Does one simple act of kindness have the power to completely turn someone's life around? It's been a year since Hannah Ainsley lost her husband and parents—her whole family—in a car crash on Christmas morning. Despite her...

Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run. When Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a troubled young man on the run. Maigret's Revolver is a wonderful picture of both London and Paris and one of Simenon's most ingenious and satisfying stories.

‘Real escapism…for me the book was an absolute win’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A gorgeous Greek island. A stranger in a veil. And a fatal fall from the cliffs… Miss Atalanta Ashford is sightseeing near Venice when a mysterious veiled lady approaches her with the urgent request to look into her daughter's mysterious death on the idyllic Greek island of Santorini. Whilst working...

After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. Almost immediately, Somers comes into the orbit of the charismatic Kangaroo, who leads a shadowy political movement in Sydney. With its astonishing descriptions of the bush ‘biding its time with a terrible ageless watchfulness’, and its free-form narrative, Kangaroo captivates and provokes....

A modern-day graphic novel adaptation of Little Women that explores identity, friendships, and new experiences through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Jo March. A must-read for fans of Raina Telgemeier. With the start of eighth grade, Jo March decides it’s time to get serious about her writing and joins the school newspaper. But even with her new friend Freddie cheering her...

"This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind." First published in 1929, Wolf Solent was the first in John Cowper Powys' great sequence of visionary works of fiction. Set in Hardy's Wessex,...

New in Penguin Japanese Classics - ghost stories from a master recounter of the macabre. Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics - a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th-century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a seaside town to an underground 'ark' full of shadows and eccentrics, with...

Puffin Classics — the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation, including this epic edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A mission to rid the seas of a monstrous creature becomes a terrifying nightmare when Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land are thrown...

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of The Wind in the Willows. Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world—including this charming edition of The Wind in the Willows. Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon...

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of The Tale of the Nutcracker. Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this charming edition of The Tale of the Nutcracker. Enter a world of magic and enchantment with Dumas's timeless adaptation of the Nutcracker story. 'You foolish child, how...

Dracula meets manga in this surreally beautiful and chilling retelling of Bram Stoker’s quintessential horror classic. In this beautiful, evocative, and often surreal retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula, a fearsome enemy arrives from the east, bringing with it horrors the likes of which have never been seen in the British Empire. Standing opposed are Wilhelmina “Mina” Murray and her stalwart...

A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is found on the tracks. With only two leads—a distinctive accent and a single word, 'kameda'—Senior Inspector Imanishi Eitaro is called in to solve the puzzle. Setting aside his beloved bonsai...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. The Great Gatsby presents a world where the world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne,...

The 100th title in the phenomenally successful and much-loved Penguin Clothbound Classics series. This selection of Poe's stories, poetry, and other writing demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. The Carter of La Providence opens with Inspector Maigret standing in the pouring rain by a canal near the town of Épernay. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such...

Divine Mortals International Edition by Amanda M. Helander is a captivating debut romantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros. It offers sizzling romance, cutthroat competition, a lush fantasy world, and an unforgettable heroine. Mona can name anyone's soulmate—but she'll do anything to avoid being matched with her own. Especially when she learns he's the king. "Fans...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of classic Sherlock Holmes stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Discover Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels. From Holmes's lodgings at 221B Baker Street, the famous detective and his faithful sidekick...

A wild and wildly compelling noir novel about a train crash and a case of mistaken identity. What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else? Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to...

Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this legendary edition of Tales from Africa. Find out how selfish Lion gets his comeuppance, go to a Frog wedding in the Sky Kingdom, discover the days when the earth's creatures were...

Cookie Monster, Elmo, Grover, and their Sesame Street friends star in this first-ever Funko Pop! Sesame Street Little Golden Book based on three classic Monsterpiece Theater episodes! Children 2 to 5, as well as fans and collectors of all ages, will delight in these Shakespearean plays with a Sesame Street twist in Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first novel, featuring foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the...

Resurrection is Tolstoy's most controversial novel, narrating the dramatic tale of a remorseful nobleman who seeks redemption after a woman he once wronged is convicted of murder. This gripping story reveals a world of injustice previously unknown to him. A nobleman confronts the repercussions of his youthful misconduct when the girl he seduced and abandoned years earlier is implicated in...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Austen's sensational final novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. Eight years ago, Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Austen's unsung masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. Mansfield Park tells the story of Fanny Price, whose rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Maigret's Pickpocket finds Inspector Maigret savouring a beautiful spring morning in Paris when he has his wallet stolen by a pickpocket. The wallet is returned the next day, but on the condition that Maigret visit the thief's apartment. What Maigret discovers there sees him...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Inspector Maigret finds himself back on Paris's Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a gangster he has known for over twenty years—one he always suspected was behind a string of jewellery robberies...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Maigret's Holiday begins with Inspector Maigret's wife falling ill during their seaside holiday at Les Sables-d'Olonne. When he visits her in the hospital, he receives a strange note instructing him to see a patient in another ward. Soon, he finds himself unexpectedly drawn into...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Inspector Maigret is known for his infallible instinct, for getting at the truth no matter how complex the case. However, when someone starts killing women on the streets of Montmartre, he finds himself confounded. In the sweltering Paris summer heat, with the city in...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Xavier Manto, a mild-mannered toy salesman from a Paris department store, has come to confide his secret fears to Inspector Maigret—he suspects his wife is plotting to poison him. Then when Maigret receives a visit from Madame Manton on the same day, he is...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. It seems like a hoax when Inspector Maigret receives a series of strange phone calls from a terrified man claiming he is being followed - and that his life is at risk. But that night, the man is found dead in the Place de...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Inspector Maigret and his wife take a much-needed rest cure in the spa town of Vichy, where they quickly become used to the leisurely pace of life. But when a woman whom they regularly pass by on their daily strolls is murdered, Maigret can't...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. For the first time in his career, Inspector Maigret receives a written summons to the Prefect's office, where he is shocked to discover himself accused of a crime. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence. Has...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Maigret and the Old People follows Inspector Maigret as he is called to the home of the Comte de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in the study of his elegant Parisian home. The violent death of this distinguished...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers. Inspector Maigret is supposed to be working to stop the gangs of robbers terrorising Paris, but then a body is found, dumped in the Bois de Boulogne. It turns out to be a quiet, likeable burglar he has known for years, and for whom...

A riveting, funny coming-of-age story - the first volume in Pirkko Saisio's award-winning Helsinki trilogy. Grandpa says everyone should leave me alone. If I want to be a boy, then I'm a boy - simple as that. Writing in the wake of her father's death, the narrator of Pirkko Saisio's autofictional novel transports us to the 1950s Finland of her...

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Kiki's Delivery Service. Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this charming edition of Kiki's Delivery Service, which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2025. Everyone has some type of magic inside them... On her thirteenth birthday, Kiki must decide whether...

Never before translated short stories by the legendary genius Ágota Kristóf. I Don't Care – it's not even pretty. The song is sad, and old, so old. I Don't Care presents the best short fiction by the Hungarian master Ágota Kristóf, selected by the author herself and available in English for the first time. Written immediately before her acclaimed Notebook...

The occasionally magic, always superstitious town of Prior's End is famous for three things: Whimsical charm at the annual Fall Festival. The legend of the wishing well hidden in a forest bristling with secrets. And Nova Marwood's missing hiker father. Every year without him, it gets easier to pretend Nova doesn't believe in myth and magic. Easier to pretend she's...

In swirling, surreal prose, the iconic artist Salvador Dalí portrays the intrigues and love affairs of a group of eccentric aristocrats who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolise decadent Europe in the 1930s. In the shadow of encroaching war, their tangled lives provide a thrilling vehicle for Dalí's uniquely spirited imagination and artistic vision.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Great Expectations chronicles the life of Pip, an ordinary country boy whose life is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events leads him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder....

Now in paperback! The Princess Diaries meets reality television in a story about fame (the kind you definitely didn't ask for), first love (the kind you didn't even know you wanted), and most importantly, family (the kind you can't live without). Ever since her mum died, Josie Lawrence has been content with her safe, predictable life. She hangs out with...

A very funny confessional novel set in one of the only Australian independent record stores still functioning, if barely. Included in The Age, The Books That Made Their Mark in 2022. 'I laughed out loud 5 times within the first 2 pages of Her Fidelity.' - KIM SALMON 'Katharine Pollock is the voice that we have been waiting for.' -...

Graham Greene's best short stories, selected and introduced by the novelist and super fan, Yiyun Li. Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here, some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or duet - by novelist and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li. Twenty-two of Greene's very best...

Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Daddy Long-Legs. A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month...

Hearts Still Beating is a gripping, romantic, and impossible to put down dark and immersive post-apocalyptic debut novel. It tells the story of two teen girls who loved each other before the end of the world—and before one of them became infected with the virus that turned her into a monster. Perfect for fans of Krystal Sutherland, Adam Silvera, and...

A rediscovered gothic classic with a groundbreaking, gender-nonconforming protagonist at its heart. ‘I do not sin,’ he smiled. ‘I am Sin’ In a quiet medieval city, alone in his shadowy chambers, Dirk Renswoude worships the devil. Then the wind brings the young scholar Thierry to his door. Could this beautiful man share his dark obsession? Under a hushed midnight sky,...

A Quiet Place, described as a thrillingly dark novel from 'Japan's Agatha Christie' by The Sunday Times, unravels a mysterious and unsettling tale. While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the distressing news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Despite Eiko's known heart condition, which made her death somewhat expectable, the circumstances leave...

The finest comic, Gothic, and satiric works of the nineteenth-century writer are included in an anthology that features a superb collection of poetry, critical essays, and short fiction. This includes such classics as "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Raven," "The Purloined Letter," "Annabel Lee," and more. Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe showcases the timeless creativity and profound...

Based on Judith Kerr’s beloved children's book The Tiger Who Came to Tea, join in the adventure to find everyone’s favourite tiger in this charming felt flap board book! Featuring classic artwork from the original story, and with soft felt flaps perfect for little hands, young children will love turning the pages to find out who's at the door! Judith...

Celebrating fifty years - a timeless classic from the Dreamtime. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains and gorges as it pushed upward. The name also reflects the snake-like meandering of water across a landscape and the colour spectrum sometimes caused by sunlight hitting the water. Renowned author and artist...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Carroll's magical masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice, a bright and inquisitive child, follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a very odd place indeed. This unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy...

A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the Rings. What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's wonderfully spooky tale with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Mr Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. 'Bah! Humbug!' he declares, as nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello, and...

‘A deeply touching, enjoyable novel, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious and intricate in its designs’ New York Times In a city that could be Paris, London or Vienna, a loose-knit group of travellers, artists, and dreamers gather – drawn together by a cryptic passage from a book. Among them are the exiled writer Juan, the elusive Hélène, and the troubled...

Adam Conlan has made a new life for himself in Morrow-on-Sea. After a wild youth, the goldsmith has settled down, determined to be around for his young son. But now Ophelia Richards appears at his studio door, asking if he will buy her gold. The writer entices and unsettles him; he sees she is adrift in the same cold pain...

People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they encountered a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing. They...

When two ex-best friends decide to hold a competition for the new girl's heart, they don't expect to fall for each other instead. Emma has been a thorn in Caleb's side since middle school. Having tarnished their friendship in eighth grade, she's now little more to him than an unkempt, unruly, disastrous bisexual mess. Over the years, she's gotten in...

Black Shack Alley is a semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique. It features a foreword by the Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau. This Penguin Classic follows in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, as Joseph Zobel's 1950 novel chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy dealing with issues of power and identity...

The master of animal adventures Independent on Sunday Two funny adventures about a spoiled princess and a very clever royal pig, from the beloved author of Babe. A Pig Called Lollipop features Lollipop, who is no ordinary pig. According to her young owner Johnny Skinner, she's the cleverest pig in the whole kingdom. When people stare into Lollipop's bright, intelligent...

In this modern graphic novel retelling of Anne of Green Gables from graphic novelist Kathleen Gros, foster kid Anne Shirley finally lands in a loving home and befriends a girl who she may have more-than-friends feelings for. Anne Shirley has been in foster care her whole life. So when the Cuthberts take her in, she hopes it’s for good. They...

Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favourite person—she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding...

A stunning and unexpected portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of one of literature’s most prized heroines, whose personal demons were at odds with her most enduring legacy—the irrepressible Anne of Green Gables. “Dear old world,” she murmured, “you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908...

She loved writing the perfect murder mystery, but she never wanted to be written into one... Just as amateur sleuth Jen gets to work on her next book, the owner of the town’s rival bookstore is found murdered. Suspicions quickly turn to Jen, and she is forced to get back to sleuthing to clear her own name. To make matters...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics — irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Widely considered to be one of the greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and a beautiful, quiet uncertainty. Collected here are five of his very best...

A masterclass of a sapphic rom-com. Filled with hate-to-love perfection, swoony moments, and off-the-charts chemistry. -Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl All's fair in love and Color War. Juliette doesn't hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate the hot popular girl....

He isn't a cop anymore, but when an old friend asks Flavieres to keep an eye on his dazzlingly beautiful wife, how can he refuse? And so he begins to scour the streets of wartime Paris in search of a woman who belongs to no one, not even to herself. Soon, intrigue is replaced by obsession, and dreams by nightmares,...

A boy runs away from the circus in search of his father and finds a new family along the way in this coming-of-age classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women. Twelve-year-old Ben Brown runs away from the circus with his dog (and best friend), Sancho, to seek out his missing father. He stumbles into the lives of...

'I remembered how they began, a parody for the newspapers. No one wrote about them now.' The Sussex coast. Sunsets paint the windswept ocean; seagulls haunt the marshland; hunting rifles crack across hillsides. But this is England through-a-glass-darkly. They are coming closer. They begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Then, the National Gallery is purged; motorway checkpoints...

"A white-knuckle descent from champagne and caviar to blood and murder. Toxic friendships, jealousy, private helicopters – I loved it! Lord of the Flies in a cocktail dress!" – RACHEL WOLF, Author of Five Nights ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- WHEN THE TRUTH SURFACES… New Year’s Eve, 2023. When Hannah and her friends rent a luxury yacht in an Italian marina, they party in...

An inventive, thought-provoking and absurd dystopian novel set in a world rampant with overpopulation by the author of A Clockwork Orange – now a Penguin Essential. The Wanting Seed tells the story of Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, who live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of...