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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and rec..
'As swift-moving as the best thriller, clipped and laconic, yet deeply and richly sensitive' - Sunday Telegraph
Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a C..
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced an..
The new paperback series- Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wo..
New to Modern Classics, published alongside The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything be..
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`Magnificent' Sunday Times
'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday
The final curtain is closing on the Second Wor..
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams..
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.
A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to s..
Published alongisde other Conrad's works, on the 150th anniversary of his death
Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indict..
Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's ..
A classics coming-of-age adventure that distils Scottishness
This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape an..
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperback
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair f..
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by K..
This is one of the earliest novels of industrial alienation, tellingly linked to the plight of 19th-century women. It tells of the relationship between Margaret Hale, a girl from the old rural south, ..
Penguin Classics relaunch
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquainta..
Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second..
Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest captured the radical anti-establishment mood of 1960s America. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her psychiatric ward with an iron fist and a penchant for elec..
First time in Modern Classics
Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, ..
First time this book has been published as a Penguin Classic
Ambrosio, the worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid, falls to the temptations of Matilda, a fiend-inspired wanton who, disguised ..
'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago' - Ian Rankin
Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psycholog..
'One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a h..
A new edition of James's chilling novella, edited by David Bromwich
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me,..
'An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy ...hilariously, and grimly, successful' Daily Telegraph Jack Gladney is the ..