Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In 'Sweet Bird of Youth', a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE FIRST NOVEL FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD'I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet' Sally Rooney, author ofand Normal People'A literary...

Masterful . . . has much to say to our times'and Guardian'Begs to be read'and Spectator'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author ofand Washington BlackIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life...

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeAand New Yorkerand Essential Read of 2022Aand Publishers Weeklyand Best Book of 2022An NPR Best Book of 2022Aand Literary Huband Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022_______________'Witty and incisive. [Sharif]...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.'Claire-Louise Bennett, author ofand PondA woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022Aand SUNDAY TIMESand HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4and OPEN BOOK'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin'and Sunday Timesand Book of the MonthIn 1822, a stage is set:...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' Marlon James, author ofand A Brief History of Seven Killings Sumptuous and astute … An absolute delight to read' Diana Evans, author ofand Ordinary People'A compelling hurricane of a book' Ann Patchett,...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'Dazzling'and Cosmopolitan'Stunning' Kei Miller'Gorgeous'and Financial Times'Haunting'and Independent'Wonderfully fearless'and New Statesman'I deeply admireand This One Sky Day -and and also, not so secretly, bitterly envy it...' Marlon JamesDawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first bookAs heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row'A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' Chris Kraus'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' Juliet Jacques'I loved...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT'Just read it. It's unforgettable'India Knight,and The Sunday Times'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It is also impossible not to laugh out loud... Extraordinary'Guardian'Full of snappy one-liners but,...

Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets,...

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the...

Lose yourself in the magical and mesmerising story from Cecelia Ahern of how tomorrow can change what happens today.Sometimes tomorrow has to start today…Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Until a travelling library...

LOSE YOURSELF IN THE MOST EPIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. BEAUTIFUL'and JOANNA CANNON MESMERISING'and ERIN KELLY TOTALLY ADDICTIVE' JOANNA GLEN SUMPTUOUS'and OBSERVER DIZZYINGLY WONDERFUL'and THE TIMESWINNING WAS EVERYTHING…UNTIL IT DESTROYED THEMTwo young men, Leo and Carfax, close friends and fierce rivals.A family ripped apart...

Lose yourself in this wickedly addictive exploration of family, relationships and modern love from the bestselling author of the HBO sensationand BIG LITTLE LIES'I adored it. Fresh, intelligent and entertaining'and MARIAN KEYESThey say trouble always comes in threes . . .For sisters Lyn, Cat...

Louis de Berni res is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was an RAF fighter in the First...

Love can heal us, and it can tear us apart...Miles's life is shattered when he loses his beloved wife to a hit-and-run driver. Struggling to hold things together for his son, Jonah, but obsessing over finding justice, a powerful new romance throws everything into...

Love might be closer than you think . . . Gemma isn't sure what upsets her more. The fact she just caught her boyfriend cheating, or that he did it on her brand-new Heal's cushions. All she knows is she needs to put as...

Love stories inspired by tales of the past... Join debut author Bolu Babalola as she recreates the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and retells them with new incredible detail and vivacity. From the homoromantic Greek myths, to magical Nigerian folktales, to...

Lovecraft's otherworldly visions of cosmic horrors, alien beings and a world not quite our own remain immensely powerful and able to terrify even the most resolute readers. The stories here span the breadth of Lovecraft's literary career, from his early forays into the Dreamlands...

Lovely Bianca has a queue of admirers anxious to marry her. But her older sister, Katharina, must get married first. Katharina has such a fiery temper she is known as 'the shrew', and no man is brave enough to propose. Can Petruchio tame her...

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new...

Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend...

'Lucy Dillon's books never fail to make me happy' Jenny Colgan Sometimes the cracks in your heart can be mended in unexpected ways . . . If Lorna's learned one thing, it's that courage is something you paint on like red lipstick, even when...

Lucy Maud Montgomery'sand Anne of Green Gablesand has delighted readers for over 100 years. The award-winning book, which relates the story of an adopted orphan on Prince Edward Island, spawned an eight-book series popular with children and adults alike. Throughout, the beloved Anne exudes...

Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. In a burst of literary brilliance, Max Porter translates into seven written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.

'Magnificent' Sunday Times'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on SundayThe 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...

Magnificent. Complex, wise, unsentimental and very moving'Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'Dense, lyrical and deeply unsettling'New York Times'A fine balance between poetic tenderness and an unflinching account of the brutal realities of the day'Guardian'Extraordinarily original'Los Angeles Times'The prose is stunning, thanks to a masterful translation by Klara...

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.'A Fire on the Moonand tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's...

Malevolent and dark, the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm are not for the faint-hearted. The stories were originally published in 1812 and form a vivid and fascinating body of work that is rich in folkloric significance. Replete with sinister characters and grotesque...

Mamma Mia meets Bridesmaids in a laugh-out-loud, life affirming comedy An absolute winner'and Celia Anderson No-one depicts family life with more humour and wisdom than Tracy Bloom'and Katie Fforde You will absolutely love Tracy Bloom… Heartfelt and wonderful'and Miranda Dickinson-------------------One weekend, one bride-to-be, what...

Marcovaldoand is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the...

Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 C.E. to his death in 180 C.E. He was destined to be a leader, having been born into a prominent family-one related by blood and marriage to rulers and bankers.During his era, Romans who inherited power and...

Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans. Whether it's the new, complete, and uncensored version of his autobiography hitting bestseller lists or the removal of certain controversial language from one...

'Marvellous.' A.S. Byatt'Astonishing.' John Gray'Luminous.' Rose TremainI could take whichever I would of these paths.Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German...

'Mary E. Pearson is a fearless storyteller' Stephanie GarberA reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives, and their hearts, in a new novel from the New York Times bestselling author...

'Master of the wartime spy thriller' - FINANCIAL TIMESIn the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich -...

Material Propertiesand asks what it might mean to interpret and translate wildness into human language and human understanding. The book is a multi-faceted and vital exploration of the non-human, the elemental and the borders between existences. Through poems of parenthood at a time of...

Matthew Lewis's Gothic masterpiece, depicting a holy man slowly becoming entangled in a web of sin, The Monk is edited with an introduction by Christopher MacLachlan in Penguin Classics.Savaged by critics for its blasphemy and obscenity, particularly since the author was a Member of...

Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.'In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the...

Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . .Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs...

Meet Sonny and his friends Honey, Meemo and Boo!They're having fun in the playground when . OOH! Sonny finds a box.Sonny says, 'A present!'Sonny can't resist opening it ... and then he can't resist what he finds inside. It's a DELICIOUS chocolate cake!But what...

Meet Tanya Shaukat.Tanya's got a pretty good life, working for Karachi's Daily Image newspaper and smoking-drinking-flirting her way through minor romantic escapades.Sure, there are a few tiny problems. But, so far, she's been handling them well enough - in fact, she's even managed to...

Melanie Hale is a devoted mother to her two children, a diligent caregiver to her ailing mother-in-law and a trusted neighbor in their wealthy Louisiana community. Above all, she's a loving partner to her wonderful husband, Collin.Then there are the parts of herself that...

Men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged...

Mercenary. Survivor. Queen.Casia Greythorne's world has been shattered. Still reeling from a devastating loss and the revelation of an identity she wasn't ready for, she must now also master the strange magic that's awakening within her.But first she must lead her friends through cursed...

The gripping new speculative fiction as rich asand The Man in the High Castleand and as packed with thrills asand Ready Player One'Alt-history with a difference'and GUARDIAN'There's real cleverness at work here'and THE TIMESAlways run, never fight.Preserve the knowledge.Survive at all costs.Take them to...

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition ofand The Complete Essaysand is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by...

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began...

Milo Weaver used to be a "tourist" for the CIA-an undercover agent with no home, no identity-but he's since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA's New York headquarters. He's acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in...