‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths The second book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val ...
... candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection by George Saunders, this generation's literary voice of wisdom and ...
... near Oakland, California, and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system. And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek "the Canon" Fanon, a homegrown product of the city ...
... driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill and savage humor, "A Week in December" explores the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life; as ...
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the ... Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories History ...
... valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside ...
... joins an anthropological expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters ... internationally bestselling A Little Life . She lives in New York City. Author: Hanya Yanagihara. ...
... to do both. These young guys are four hard-working professionals who also have an addiction to club life. Keith is in the banking field, trying to rise to the top as easily as possible, but it is not happing as fast as ...
Third edition of a dramatic novel, first published in 1988. Tim Winton's classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark is spellbinding. Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people ...
... is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist. But, as he soon discovers, this deception hides an ...
... Atkinson's finest work, and confirmation that her genre-defying writing continues to surprise and dazzle' Observer A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband ...
... . When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a ... and the present become inseparable - as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past - and time bends back on ...
... clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Their search ...
... house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the ...
... . Remi is so over men wasting her time that she doesn't want to play. Will Uzi eventually shoot an arrow in her heart? Remi's younger sister, Tweeti, was always overlooked as a child. Now, all the boys who played her for ...
... twin sister and trying desperately both to forget her roots and disown her ambition, she's lost and confused in the face of complicated crises of identity, class, sex and geography. She finds herself fleeing up and down ...
... straw? Follow Keyon and Casimere on this bumpy ride and find out what it's really like with a bad boy in your life. Keyon and Casimere must both come to terms with the consequences of his actions. Will she forgive him ...
... "Me and Grandma," a senior sleighs more crack than candy canes to bring Christmas cheer to her needy grandkids; and in "Holiday Hell," Noelle must raise $23,000 to repay a loan shark or her sister will become a ghost of ...
... on the Papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two, already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. And then there is Cesare Borgia: brilliant, ruthless and ...
... their homes. A mother clutches her six-month-old son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, her son is snatched from her arms and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever ...
... insanity from which he must slowly and painfully return. Told from several points of view and structured in a series of intersecting flashbacks and interior monologues, the novel describes the difficult geography of male ...
... of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, ... crosses its path. An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and ...
... unrequited love have rarely been more movingly expressed. About The Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of my Melancholy Whores (2005), is his first new ...
... the first time, as well as a large cast of other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed. Exquisite and musical, In the Skin of a Lion is a novel that challenges the boundary between history and myth. It is a ...
... of a destiny altered for good by the force of passion. About the Author María Dueñas holds a Ph.D. in English Philology and is a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities, is the ...
Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry ...
... renowned scholar of the art of story-telling - and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination ...
... entertainer reminiscing while searching for her reprobate daughter in Paris or a woman fated to wander back ... entertainer reminiscing while searching for her reprobate daughter in Paris or a woman fated to wander back ...
... the Time of Cholera , you might like Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer' Daily Telegraph 'An amazing celebration of ...
... all is the determined boy Yankel who will throw his and his young brother's chances of surviving to strangers. A Boy in Winter is a story of hope when all is lost, and of mercy when the times have none. About the Author ...
... apart. She's craving a new adventure, so when she happens across a tiny, abandoned shop with a for-sale sign in the window, it feels fated. And she's about to learn that the forgotten bookshop hides a lot more than meets ...
... of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall , was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill ...
... two weeks, she travelled out to the Rest Centre, to visit her 'half', Marie, her spitting image, who lay in an induced coma, her body parts available whenever the woman needed them. As a form of resistance against the ...
... the miracles of European literature.' Guardian Author: Marcel Proust. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Fiction in Translation Penguin Modern Classics
... Book of the Year award for A Fence Around the Cuckoo. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987 and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales. Ruth Park lives ...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man , and For Esme-With Love and Squalor , will not be surprised by the fact ...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man , and For Esme-With Love and Squalor , will not be surprised by the fact ...
Berlin, 1940. The city is paralysed by fear. But one man refuses to be scared. Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when he discovers his only son ...
An extraordinary novel of passion and discovery from Anais Nin, the master of erotic fiction Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near- ...
... Kimberley Chambers's epic new novel. Available now! About the Author Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Kimberley Chambers lives in Romford and has been, at various times, a disc jockey and a street trader. She is now a ...
... at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on ...
The Bluest Eye chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond ...
... , thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come ...
... arias after dinner. The tycoon's engaging and sympathetic translator plays a vital role in the subsequent relationships between so many different nationalities closeted together, interpreting not only the terrorists ...
... all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh oh oh ' Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever ...
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then ...
Published just one year after On The Road , this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High ...
... and Bennington College, and is the author of a second novel, The Little Friend . She lives in Mississippi and New York City. Author: Donna Tartt. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Booktopia ...
... one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow ...
... It makes the heart pound.' Los Angeles Times 'Shallows is more than a passionate meditation on the tragedy of whaling; it is in some ways a minimalist Moby Dick , a questioning of the ways of God to man and of man to God ...
... , Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball... About the Author Accomplished in equal measure as a poet, novelist, and essayist, Margaret Atwood is as much a dazzling storyteller ...
... American masterpiece of the 'Roaring Twenties' based on Fitzgerald's own experience It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are ...
... a result of his habit of travelling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over thousands of miles, settling in places for months at a time and adopting new families before heading off again to the next destination ...
... 's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac . He lives in Seattle, Washington. Author: Neal Stephenson. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Literature
... a harrowing, fascinating, compelling work" The Australian When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into ...
It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are ...
A rural-crime novel about finding out how to survive and surviving what you find. In a small country town, an act of revenge causes five lives to collide. Early one Christmas morning, Graeme Sweetapple, a man down on his ...
The Biographer's Lover is a novel about Australia's complex relationship with memory, and the role gender plays in the ways we represent not only national myths but our private versus our public selves Why has no-one ...
... the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale . Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again ...
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond ...
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the ...
... a dozen historical romances. A librarian by training and a book-lover at heart, Tessa makes her home in Southern California, where she shares a cozy, cluttered bungalow with her husband, their two children, and a pair ...
... to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds. Author: Chris Cleave. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose ...
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are ...
... s son. While off his meds, Kalif discovers the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of his birth parents. In a matter of seconds, he totally snaps, ignoring the possible consequences. His rage and thirst for power ...
Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel which revolutionised the genre, now published in Penguin Classics for the first time A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find ...
... -crushing game shows, stuffing f*ckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yerself in a home, a total f*ckin embarrassment tae the selfish, f*cked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life ...
... bonds tested when personality differences and relationship issues threaten to pull them apart. What happens when you fall in love with the right man at the wrong time? Rashida Haughton finds out firsthand when she meets ...
... Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the ...
A transporting historical novel from the acclaimed author of Woodsburner . In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, an astronomer gone ...
... will be. He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan - one of Saturn's moons - is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore ...
... Award; longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years ... Funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical' NEIL GAIMAN The year ...
... two Man Booker Prizes, as well as being the first to win with two consecutive novels. Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning ‘Wolf Hall’, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible ...
In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been ...
... funny as its screen version' Observer 'One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time' Los Angeles Times 'Both modern and timeless' Neon 'A wonderful fairy tale' The Times Author ...
... of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender? 'Louis de Berni res is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...he has only to look into his world, one senses ...
... McFarlane unleashed his iconic antihero on the world, and launched the most successful independent comic book in history. Spawn Origins Volume 6 includes stories penned by Alan Moore, along with Author: Todd McFarlane ...
Isabel Preston spent her teenage years with a mother who struggled to pay the bills in their suburban home as she covered up the whereabouts of Isabel's absent father. Fuelled by anger, frustration and resentment, Isabel ...
... just rejected by his crush of 5 years. On the way home from drowning his sorrows, he runs into a girl crouching in the middle of the road, and she offers him a deal-let her crash at his place and he can do whatever he ...
At an all-time low after being rejected by his crush, office worker Yoshida reluctantly agrees to take in Saya, a runaway high school girl he met on the street. Now, as they are finally settling into their unusual living ...
... von Gunten" is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of ...
This powerful novel set in a multi-racial street which erupts with emotion and violence. Sarah and Joe live with their Dad, and Sarah finds her friendship with Everton, her neighbour, is threatened. Nigel Gray, Smarties' ...
... by a love he cannot understand, much less avoid-and soon realizes that life isn't so routine anymore. Set in R. K. Narayan's fictional city of Malgudi, "The Painter of Signs" is a wry, bittersweet treasure. Author: R. K ...
... and starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney will be released October 2004 - First serial slated to appear in Granta - Visit www.tcboyle.com Author: T. C. Boyle. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction ...
... literary lights of the day, including Percy Shelley, Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and penned in period-perfect voice, "The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein" is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first ...
First time in Modern Classics and for Penguin to publish one of the great American writers of the last 50 years Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with ...
Reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics as part of our Paul Bowles relaunch, with a new introduction by Paul Theroux 'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they ...
... novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera. 'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the ...
... is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin , which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's ...
As office worker Yoshida and runaway high school girl Sayu find themselves more and more at home in their unusual arrangement, Sayu finally works up the courage to face her future and, for the first time, considers going ...
... . Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this ...
... deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of ...
... and meets a horrific destiny . Five days later, her tortured body is found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers call her 'The Black Dahlia'. For two cops, what begins as an investigation becomes a hellish ...
... disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political ...
... florist whose life doesn’t exactly seem to be coming up roses. Fleeing the houseshare from hell, she moves in with Josh, a sexually confused merchant banker; Kate, a high-flying legal eagle with talons to match, and the ...
In "The Fall of Troy," acclaimed novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd creates a fascinating narrative that follows an archaeologist's obsession with finding the ruins of Troy, depicting the blurred line between truth and ...
... have children. But Kate's sure that ring will be on her finger soon. When her thirty-second birthday ends in humiliating, proposal-less disaster, even Kate is left wondering if Alf really is The One. Then Alf's friend ...
... the hugely critically acclaimed and bestselling The Hate U Give and On the Come Up. She was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. A former teen rapper, she is the recipient of a Walter Dean Myers Grant, awarded by the ...
... entering not only another place but another time. As the wild island exerts its elemental hold and she is submerged in the language of the wilderness, she sees that what she is really looking for is her own past. Author ...
... took him out of one life and introduced him to another filled with books. Now a grown man living in France, Jacques must ask himself- where does he belong? Which side of the Mediterranean should he call home? Discovered ...