Literary Fiction

Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award-winning film, No Country for Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice -...

A powerful literary debut from an astonishing new Kiwi voice, focusing on the Indo-Fijian indenture system and how it affected generations across the Pacific.Rajasthan 1888: Avani Rathod, a nomad of the Banjara community, is summoned to teach a blue-eyed colonial officer the trees of her region, but instead is misled into indenture to the sugarcane plantations of Fiji. While on...

The Wild Card by Stephanie Archer is the fifth book in the Vancouver Storm series. This spicy, laugh-out-loud hockey romance is crafted by fan-favourite Stephanie Archer. All books in the Vancouver Storm series can be read as standalone titles, as they are written in an interconnected universe. Title and copy to be revealed.

In The Heart's Invisible Furies, John Boyne intricately weaves a compelling tale of identity, love, and redemption set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Ireland. This poignant and expansive narrative follows the life of Cyril Avery, a man who is constantly reminded by his adoptive parents that he "is not a real Avery." Born out of wedlock to a young, destitute...

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See is a mesmerizing historical novel set in 15th-century China, transporting readers to a world where societal norms and family expectations shape lives, but where resilience and friendship can break through the strictest of boundaries. Two women, born under the sign of the Metal Snake, form an unshakeable bond despite the vastly different...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a profound exploration of guilt, redemption, and the human psyche. Set in the grimy streets of St Petersburg, the novel centres on Rodion Raskolnikov, a struggling and impoverished former student whose growing desperation leads him to commit a heinous act. Raskolnikov's journey is a labyrinth of moral dilemmas and harrowing decisions, where he...

In post-World War II Barcelona, a city still scarred by war, young Daniel Sempere is introduced to a clandestine labyrinth known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. As it is tradition for a first-time visitor, Daniel is encouraged to 'adopt' a single book from the repository, vowing to keep its story alive. He selects a novel, The Shadow of the...

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart. The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof...

Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer – now an instant Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Women's Prize. Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extremely funny book about depression that engulfed me in the way...

The definitive version of Jane Austen's timeless novel of love's triumph over adversity. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane,...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROver 500,000 copies sold internationallyA BBC Between the Covers Book Club PickA BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeWinner of Dymocks Book of the Year‘Sheer joy' GRAHAM NORTON ‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ JOANNA CANNON‘A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ DAILY MIRRORFrom the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin...

A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from...

The Hunger Games meets Prison Break in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance series that's perfect for fans of Veronica Roth and Tahereh Mafi who loved the 2010s dystopian era and are looking for the adult version of those books. A deadly prison. A forbidden romance. A fight for survival. THERE'S ONLY ONE RULE IN ENDLOCK- OBEY OR DIE. In Dividium, all...

From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present, and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet. 2014 - A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate...

Brave New World is still one of the most shocking, unnerving and prophetic novels ever written. Mass-consumerism, individualism, total reliance on technology—it is a future that appears to be here already. Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Introduced by Margaret Atwood Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself....

Nothing Tastes As Good is a staggeringly honest exploration of how shame, cruelty and the hunger for acceptance can make us feel sub-human. It is visceral and vicious, horrifying, unflinching and unputdownable. - RACHEL HARRISON You'd kill to look this good... Over three hundred pounds, Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mould of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. He's tried...

On a bright summer night in 1990s Connecticut, fourteen-year-old Emily Vidal stands on her parents' lawn, watching the adults arrive. Her mother is hosting a lavish birthday party for her father, even though he is about to leave her for another woman. Adrift between her feuding parents and eccentric neighbours, Emily is closer than she knows to the choices and...

A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction. Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear....

Lord of the Flies meets Love Island – dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted’ LOUISE O'NEILL ‘So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?’ TORREY PETERS ‘A clever and delicious treat’ ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS ‘Page-turning, nail-biting… utterly bingeable’ OLIVIA GATWOOD You wake up in a compound in...

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon is the captivating first novel in the bestselling series, widely regarded as Scotland's answer to iconic epics. The story begins in 1946, as Claire Randall, a former nurse, embarks on a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands with her husband, Frank. Their peaceful adventure takes a bewildering turn when Claire unknowingly steps into an ancient circle...

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements. It is ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. Considered one of the greatest romance novels of all time, Jane...

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot – unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a gripping and thought-provoking dystopian novel that has left an indelible mark on contemporary literature. Set in the near-future Republic of Gilead, a theocratic and totalitarian society that has replaced the United States, the story explores themes of power, control, and female subjugation. At the centre of this harrowing world is Offred, a...

The action-packed bestselling sequel to Jurassic Park. _____________________ Something has survived. The bestselling sequel to Jurassic Park Six years have passed since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park. In the years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end, the island has been indefinitely closed to the public, its park dismantled, the dinosaurs themselves destroyed....

Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? The follow-up to the international bestseller Beartown. Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? By the time the last goal is scored, someone in Beartown will be dead... Us Against You is the story of two towns, two teams and what it means to believe in something bigger than yourself. It's...

A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is afflicted before he can read...

In the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to appease the needs of the Party. Inwardly, he rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the watchful eye of Big Brother. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair...

Set against the dramatic and tumultuous backdrop of Leningrad in 1941, during the peak of Hitler's invasion of Russia, The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons is an evocative tale of love, sacrifice, and resilience. The story follows Tatiana Metanova, a young and spirited Russian girl, whose life is irrevocably changed when she meets Alexander Belov, a daring and mysterious Red...

Irresistible, all-consuming and decades-spanning, this is the love story of theyear, told from the perspective of everyone but the main characters. Clara and Seb are about to fall in love.They don't know it yet.But everybody else does. When Clara and Seb meet in a quiet corner of London, it's the start of something. Shewants to be a director. He's an...

From New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story about obsession and crimes of passion. She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim... A new, twisting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Teacher and The Housemaid! She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim. Sydney...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with an introduction by William Mills Todd III. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin—the titular 'idiot'—pays a visit to his distant...

A brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. Les Misérables is Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism, and love. It follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. However, his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly...

An epic story of self-discovery and becoming, set against the magnificent and breathtaking landscape of mid-century Colorado. The book that has stolen hearts everywhere, the breathtakingly powerful Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and Great Circle. 'A sweeping story of survival and becoming' - Women's Prize For Fiction...

Compulsively readable Daily Telegraph The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual...

Gabrielle Zevin has an incredible gift for storytelling. . . I am forever amazed . . . this is my new favourite 5-star reader review The day he first meets Maggie is the day he understands what it is to be in love. Deeply, wildly, terminally in love. What he doesn't know is that loving Maggie means loving many women...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment, comes a new book about our relationship to the natural world. This book takes us into the wild – deep into dark forests, to the top of mountains and into the heart of deserts. It addresses our deep yearnings to be awed and inspired by landscapes that remain beyond our...

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Since its publication in 2005, The Book Thief has sold over seventeen million copies, been translated into sixty-three languages, and appeared at the top of favourite-reading lists, year after year, around the world. For a generation, it has served...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH ‘A masterpiece’ Zadie Smith ‘Extraordinary’ Daily Mail ‘Breathtaking’ Observer ‘A tour de force’ The Sunday Times George Saunders' extraordinary debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, weaves a heart-rending story set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. As the battle-lines are drawn and a nation is...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess...

If Rebecca was a fantasy book, Weavingshaw is a riveting gothic fantasy full of intrigue, morally grey characters, and slow-burn romance. Leena didn't believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw. The Saint of Silence trades coins for every sordid divulgence uttered to him. The darker the secret, the higher the price. Leena has a secret, one that has haunted her...

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FOR 2025 BY 2 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER. Matt had been happily drifting through life, but recently, he lost his job as a bathroom salesman, and the tenancy on his home is about to expire. To top it all off, he wakes up one day to find his partner Harriet has left him. He’s hoping...

An accidental pregnancy turns a tight-knit group on its head in this witty and irresistible novel of modern love, sex, and friendship, from the New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street ('Blissfully enjoyable' India Knight). 'I devoured The Shampoo Effect... it's funny, drama-fuelled, and full of Jackson's breezy wit.' - Coco Mellors, Sunday Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Big Brother is Watching You. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania....

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the enchanting childhood classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt, and quite contrary. But...

Teenager Jesse loves her friends, her little brother, and her parents—even when they're arguing, which they seem to do all the time these days. She also loves playing interactive computer games from her hospital bed in the children's cancer ward. When Jesse is offered the chance to have her greatest wish fulfilled, she immediately knows what she wants: a digital...

It was supposed to be one night. Fate had other plans . . . Anna isn't looking for love. Fresh out of a divorce, she needs an escape. One reckless night of fun - and the gorgeous Irishman who buys her a drink at the bar promises exactly that. No last names, no strings, just fireworks. Liam is used to...

AN EPIC STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE NOVELLA FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older—a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she...

Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of two other magnificent Bulgakov titles. The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices—including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat—he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction, and death spread through the city like wildfire, and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the...

Jonas Jonasson is back with another irresistible adventure, this time set in nineteenth century Sweden. After his father’s death is caused by the greedy and cunning Count Bielkegren, Algot Olsson is left with nothing to his name, except for a potato field and a homemade still to make liquor. But Algot is smart, ambitious and resourceful, and it’s not long...

An Observer Best Debut Novel 2025 Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 'What a joy it is to read' Michael Magee, author of Close to Home 'I couldn't put this book down' Sheena Patel, author of I'm A Fan 'Powerful, moving, compelling, utterly enthralling' Jon McGregor, author...

A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, ELLE, WATERSTONES AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AMONG OTHERS 'An instant classic.' ELLE 'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' ANDREW O'HAGAN 'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' TESS GUNTY 'Utterly phenomenal.' ELIZABETH DAY In the new novel from the author of Assembly, a viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers. Remember -...

Part bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller . . . heart-slicing, cinematic. - The Times Miri thinks she has got her wife back when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were...

The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers alike. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a true classic, a timelessly fascinating and...

A powerful and essential tale of female freedom This internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of Iran's most important and influential writers traces the interwoven destinies of five women - including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a sex worker and a schoolteacher - as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing...

The ultimate feminist dystopian novel. Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, these women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollections of their lives before. As the burn of...

Special collector’s film tie-in hardback of the best-selling classic, featuring the complete story with a sumptuous cover design inspired by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and brand new reproductions of all the drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag...

It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, special meat - human meat - is legal. Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a gift to seal...

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is a captivating and poignant novel that delves into the intertwined lives of two star-crossed lovers in war-torn Cyprus and their enduring legacy decades later. This Sunday Times bestselling novel intricately weaves themes of love, loss, and identity amidst a backdrop of cultural and historical turmoil. Set in 1974 on the island...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Jane Austen's beloved novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. Emma is young, rich, and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however,...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life. 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful...

All That We Know, authored by Shilo Kino, masterfully captures the vibrant and complex essence of contemporary Aotearoa, New Zealand, threading together the intricate relations between the past, present, and future. This compelling novel boldly explores themes of identity, love, activism, and the enduring impacts of colonisation. Meet Mareikura Pohe, a young woman teetering on the edge of great personal...

I'm lost in admiration. Strange Sally Diamond is vivid, pacy, taut but so very moving . . . defies categorisation. — Marian Keyes Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do: to put him out with the rubbish when he died. Now Sally is the centre...

The brand-new standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. The brand-new standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. Praise for Jojo Moyes 'Moyes somehow manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love' – Sunday Express 'Storytelling at...

Her husband disappeared on their wedding day . . . Carrie and Johan are a young couple, dancing together on a beach in Thailand hours after their wedding ceremony. They are deeply in love and luminously happy . . . until, without warning, Johan is taken from the beach by armed men, never to be seen again. Twelve years later,...

By the author of the sensational worldwide bestseller We'll Prescribe You a Cat - meet more irresistible furry friends to help you cure your emotional dilemmas, set in a magical clinic in Kyoto, Japan. The highly anticipated new novel - The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You...

‘A thrill for the sickos among us’ JIA TOLENTINO ‘Utterly inimitable’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN 'The funniest, darkest thing' ST VINCENT LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION An audacious and original novel-in-stories following a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection...

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred,...

Harry Potter in glorious colour – a gorgeous hardback box set of the Illustrated Editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. These three irresistible complete novels contain over 800 pages of classic storytelling from J.K. Rowling and more than 300 extraordinary illustrations from Kate...

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIES 'This isn't London. The rules are different up here, and so are the allegiances.' Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he'll need one when this is over... If more's the merrier, then it's ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins,...

Normal People meets Industry in this contemporary love story of two brilliant young people whose ambitions and ideals come between them. Their first kiss was not without technical shortcomings. His glasses bumped against the bridge of her nose and her back pressed uncomfortably against the edge of a filing cabinet. But as she inhaled the scent of his aftershave, Nadia...

'Makes your palms sweat and your blood run cold; the terrific trial scenes out-Grisham John Grisham' THE TIMES 'This guy is the real deal. Trust me.' LEE CHILD 'Top notch thrills and courtroom drama' SHARI LAPENA HE'S WON EVERY TRIAL. BECAUSE HE'S BEHIND EVERY MURDER. Ambitious District Attorney Randal Korn lives to watch prisoners executed. Even if they are not...

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity...

In The Stand by Stephen King, humanity is brought to its knees by an unstoppable plague, an influenza strain known as "Captain Trips," which devastates the globe, wiping out nearly the entire population. As civilisation collapses, survivors are haunted by vivid dreams that pull them towards two opposing figures: the benevolent, elderly Mother Abagail and the sinister Randall Flagg, the...

The Whale Rider, by Witi Ihimaera, tells the timeless story of how the courage of one girl in standing against the tide of tradition enables her tribe to reconnect with their ancestral life force. The Whale Rider has become one of Witi Ihimaera's best-loved stories, capturing readers with its universal themes of conflict between generations and genders, respect for nature,...

The seminal work Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky delves deeply into the human psyche. This profound narrative introduces us to an anonymous narrator, a retired civil servant, deeply alienated from society. Feeling perpetually at odds with the world around him, he retreats to his "underground" existence, shunning social norms and despising the banalities of everyday life. The...

A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton. It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused...

On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere ... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter...

This beautifully designed, clothbound edition is part of Penguin's hardback Clothbound Classics series, crafted by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton,...

Who doesn't love a luxurious holiday? But even paradise can have an off day... A funny, warm and wise insight into the joys and challenges of finding community in the most unlikely places, from the bestselling author of The Road Trip. As manager of a luxurious Kimberley resort, Nelda has a lot on her plate. So when Beatrice Foreston, a...