SELECTED FORand STYLIST'S FICTION YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 - 'AN ESSENTIAL READ'NAMED AS A BOOK OF 2022 BYand ESQUIRE,and STYLIST,and SHEERLUXEand AND FOYLES'A stone-cold masterpiece by a shocking new talent' OLIVIA LAINGIt's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from...

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and...

Set against the Blitz in London, a young woman's extraordinary journey of self-discovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.A March Best Book inand Red'NOTE PERFECT'and East Ridingand Magazine'AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW WRITER' Nina StibbeI used to...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns,and Fourteen Daysand is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been...

Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, 'Into the War', we are given an...

Set in Sydney, Australia,and Courting Samiraand is a charming, big-hearted rom-com about a twenty-seven-year-old Palestinian woman who finds herself in an unexpected love triangle-a sparkling ode to meddling best friends, traditional courtship,and The Princess Bride,and and, of course, the possibility of love.“Come for the...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique...

Set in the world of contemporary art, Guy Kennaway's new novel delivers his trademark absurdities and laugh out loud moments.As the globe's most successful super-dealer, Herman Gertsch spent his charmed life jettiing between his galleries in Zurich, London and New York, fawned over by...

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow'sand Ragtimeand seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction...

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader,...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World War, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs...

Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts...

Several Daring CrimesLondon. A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack and a take-over bid.One Shocking ConspiracyThey seem unrelated - untiland Evening Postand reporters...

Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic - the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimagin-able delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering...

Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating...

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave party. Shahid's academic prospects are threatened by the intervention of his gangster brother Chili,...

Shakespeare's combination of violence, introspection, dark humour and rich language inand Hamletand is intoxicating. It remains the world's most widely studied and performed play, and is a cornerstone of world literature.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics...

She doesn't exist. She can't exist. A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight' Jess Kidd, author of and Things in Jars'Those who live in the walls must adjust, must twist themselves around in their home, stretching themselves until they're...

Sherlock Holmes in America? Mark Twain a character in his own stories? Can it be true? True indeed, dear reader, as Mark Twain makes his mark on the mystery genre with this collection of short stories by the grand master himself! Including "A Double...

Sherlock Holmes is dead.Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new...

Sherlock Holmes Theand Complete Novels and Stories Volumeand II.and Since his first appearance inand Beeton's Christmas Annualand in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all...

Sherlock Holmes: A Gripping Casebook of Storiesand contains the full-length noveland A Study in Scarlet,and plus 14 short stories.and A Study in Scarletand marked Sherlock Holmes' debut appearance in novel form, while Holmes made his first short story appearance inand A Scandal in Bohemia,...

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Storiesand contains, in two volumes, all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's world-famous detective.Volume II contains the fourth of the Sherlock Holmes novels,and The Valley of Fear, in which Holmes memorably faces his...

Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of deduction, and with the help of his faithful companion Dr Watson, Holmes takes on all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains - and wins. But the cases...

Shes twenty-three and in love with love. Hes older, and the most beautiful man shes ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither...

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a...

Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna TarttThis is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as...

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first noveland Tropic of Cancerand is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminTropic of Cancerand redefined the...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour. So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEThe best novel I've read in a long time' Roddy DoyleThe lives of two women - the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her - intersect...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 'A gripping historical adventure that feels sharp, fresh and modern' STYLIST 'An amazing literary feat' CURTIS SITTENFELD 'A masterpiece' NIGELLA LAWSON A soaring, breathtakingly ambitious novel that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2022 'Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONA masterful, exuberant novel from the acclaimed author ofand How to be bothand and the ongoingand Seasonaland quartet'Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her' Jeanette Winterson'As infectious as a pop...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2021'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste,and Guardian'A brilliant and important book...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'A canny, challenging, and never less than engrossing read.' Lisa MacInerney'A vivid and memorable book about art, land and language, love and sev, youth and age. Big ideas tread lightly through Audrey Magee's strong prose.' Sarah Moss'So brilliant in its...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Luminous.'and Observer'I utterly ADORED it.'and MARIAN KEYES'Powerful'and Sunday TimesHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine...

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3.and Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a...

Sidney Sheldon's eighth novel, repackaged to accompany his memoirs, The Other Side of Me'.The world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East and the West and Mary Ashley, beautiful, talented, intelligent, has been chosen to represent America as Ambassador to Romania....

Simultaneously tragic and uplifting. And I have to say at times funny. Charlotte Levin is SUCH a clever writer . . . A magnificent read.' - Ruth Jones, author ofand Love UntoldA gripping, darkly comic tale of searing loss, coercive control and the consequences...

Since his astonishing Academy Award-nominated film, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hanif Kureishi has been recognized as a major writer who has both documented and profoundly influenced contemporary British culture. His first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), remains a key work in redefining our...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection,and Four Bare Legs in a Bed,and Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny and penetrating stories take on the full stretch,...

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) was a writer of breathtaking range and learning, whose works demonstrate a warm and humorous view of human nature. Religio Medici is a fascinating, witty and intimate exploration of his views on faith and tolerance, while substantial selections from Pseudodoxia...

Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo....

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Economics as if People MatteredE. F. SchumacherThis classic book on New Age economics is as relevant now as when it was authored and first published. Small Is Beautiful expressed a set of ideas and im­pulses that had given rise to the...

So important for anyone who is struggling with their relationships. A brilliant book'and Chloe Brotheridge'Lucid and helpful'and Sunday TimesIf your partner doesn't answer a text quickly, do you become anxious? Do you check up on your partner online to know their every move? Are...

There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It's not an easy thing to do, and Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick...

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. It begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. Also available in audiobook!In book six, Peter and Janet are the only witnesses when a car is stolen....

Some houses are NEVER at peace…SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN A gothic gem of intrigue and atmosphere' HWA Debut Crown JudgesEngland, 1917and Reeling from the death of her fiance, Stella Marcham welcomes the opportunity...