The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant,...

The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best.It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a...

The Art of Worldly Wisdomand is considered a classic text for those seeking a philosophy for life, written by 17th century Spanish Jesuit scholar Baltasar Gracián.The 300 maxims with commentary provide a worldview that encourages ethical behaviour when seeking worldly success. With advice on...

The authorand Hans Christian Andersenand is regarded as a national treasure by his homeland Denmark, but his popularity extends far beyond his native shores. As one of the most translated authors in the world, there are hundreds of editions of his books in many...

The award-winning author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. Sea of Tranquility is a virtuoso performance and an enormously exciting offering from one of our most remarkable...

The battle between Good and Evil begins.Go back in time to the beginning of the School for Good and Evil and uncover the never-before-told events leading up to Sophie and Agatha's dramatic arrival and the beginning of their epic fairy tale.Two brothers. One Good....

His characters are marvellous, his insights wonderful ... You don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better' Ruth RendellThe Old Curiosity Shopand was an instant bestseller that, even while it was criticized for its sentimentality, captured the hearts of the nation with...

The best book I've read this year ... darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise' Marina Abramovic'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.'When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds...

The best English novel since the war' Philip RothMagnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he...

The best historical crime novel I will read this year' -and The Times'Spectacularly brilliant . . . One of the most enjoyable and enduring stories I have ever read' - James O'Brien, journalist, author and LBC Presenter'This is right up there with the best...

The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le GuinThe dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell'sand Nineteen Eighty-Four,and Weand depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppressed in Russia for decades, it is a chilling vision of...

The bestselling author ofand Find Meand andand Call Me by Your Nameand returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between...

The bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia is 'a dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan) by 'an artist' (Salman Rushdie).'A cult figure.'and Guardian'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.'and Salman Rushdie'A dark...

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author ofand The Alchemist.A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and...

The bestselling Turkish classic of love and loss in a changing world, with a new introduction by David Selim Sayers'A heart-breaker . . . it has the kind of indefinably powerful impact ofand The Great Gatsby' Observer'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man...

The biggest SF series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S. A. Corey's Hugo Award-winning Expanse series.NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES FROM AMAZON PRIMEHUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES'Interplanetary adventure the way it ought...

The book 'Indian by Choice' tackles the complex theme of identity (Who am I? Where do I truly belong?); it is a journey of self-discovery through the myriad human relationships that help us see things in perspective and in context. People are what they...

The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure of Chuang Tzu. One of the great founders of Taoism, Chaung Tzu lived in the fourth century BC and is among the most enjoyable and...

'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES 'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY 'More than lives up to the hype ... Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped...

The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking,and Flatlandand is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is...

The brand new and devastatingly romantic final instalment in the bestselling SHATTER ME series.Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn't easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their...

THE BRAND NEW EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT THRILLER FROM LOUISE CANDLISH, THE HEIGHTS, IS OUT NOW!and Absolutely brilliant… An exceptionally exciting, mysterious book - we both loved it'and Richard andamp; JudyIt all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by riverbus with...

The brand new novel from the bestselling author ofand The Shoemaker's Wife, a Richard and Judy Book Club pickWhen Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet by chance on the Jersey shore, the two form a duo that takes the music industry by storm....

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Peopled with wonderful characters, it's funny, sad, poignant and heart-warming, a tough subject tenderly handled. Have some tissues handy'and Choice MagazineFaced with losing everything, all that matters isand Here and Now . . .Marigold has...

The brand-new historical novel from the bestselling author ofand The Alice Networkand andand The Huntress!*Winner of Historical Novel of the Year in NetGalley UK's Books of 2021* A terrific book bursting with vivid atmosphere' Dinah Jefferies, #1 bestselling author ofand The Tea-Planter's Wife'Wonderful…A hugely...

The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson.'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns'and ObserverOnce it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax...

The brilliant debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Pachinko.'Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing... As easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance.' NEW YORK TIMESCasey Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and...

The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by...

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects...

THE CELEBRATED SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE AMERICAN POET AND WRITER OFTEN CALLED THE 'POET LAUREATE OF HARLEM'A black maid forms a close bond with the daughter of the cruel white couple for whom she works. Two rich, white artists hire a black model...

The chilling novella featured in Stephen King's bestselling collectionand Full Dark, No Stars,and 1922and - about a man who succumbs to the violence within - is now available as a stand-alone publication.I believe there is a man inside every man, a strangerSo writes Wilfred...

The classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America's Declaration of Independence, and with this landmark treatise on political economy, Adam Smith paved the way for modern capitalism,...

The classic nursery story celebrates 100 years since its first publication!He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.In the nursery, only the toys that are old and...

The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear....

The companion book toand Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose ofand The Genealogy of Moralsand was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact...

The companion novel toand Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the unexamined life.Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The dailydramas of his...

The complete collection of Sherlock Holmes's adventures in crime, including all four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic heroVolume I includes the early noveland A Study in Scarlet,and which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world....

The Dard-e-Dils are characterised by their prominent clavicles and love of stories. Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is prey to their legends that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. There is a sting to most of...

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. In 1990...

The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional...

The delightfully clever mystery in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves a murder at Buckingham Palace -and perfect for fans ofand The Crownand andand The Thursday Murder Cluband by Richard Osman.'A witty whodunit starring our very own HM The Queen as an amateur sleuth'...

The electrifying sequel toand Becoming Mila... following Blake and Mila through the heat-filled days of a tempestuous summer.What the hell just happened?! One cheating dad, one furious mom, and Mila stuck in the middle.Enter chaos. Hit by an onslaught of revelations, Mila's life is...

The epic novel of the American West and the heroic cowboy Owen Wister's powerful story of the tall, silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil has become an enduring part of American mythology. Set in Wyoming Territory,...

The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...From Dune to Rakis to Dune, the wheel turns full circle. From burning desert to...

The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only...

The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres, ruthless and all-conquering, have destroyed the...

The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE continues ...The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.But for the...

The Essentials of Psycho-analysis is the definitive collection of Sigmund Freud´s writing. It covers the themes that Freud explored in his work from the meaning of dreams and the concept of the unconscious, instinctual and sexual life to the structure of the personality. Beautifully...

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writingsand is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by...

The fast-paced new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Best Laid Plans, Morning, Noon andamp; Night and Bloodline.Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be,...