There is one literary detective who stands above all others, whose powers of deduction are known the world over, whose influence can still be felt in today's most modern whodunits. Who is it, you ask? Why, it's elementary! Sherlock Holmes, the famous gumshoe of...

Ever since she was fifteen years old, the talented Sanam Khan has only had one dream: to win a world cup for her country. Now, thanks to her own efforts as the captain, her team of talented misfits in the Pakistan Women's cricket team...

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction-tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals...

Kitchenand juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film.Whenand Kitchenand was first published in Japan in 1987 it won...

When flight Air France 006 enters a terrifying storm, the plane - inexplicably - duplicates. For every passenger on board, there are now two. Just one thing sets them apart. One plane leaves the storm in March. The other doesn't land until June. For...

Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her'and ELIZABETH DAY'So insanely good and true and twisted it'll make your teeth sweat'and OLIVIA WILDE'One of my favourite writers of all time'and DUA LIPA'Like a series of grenades exploding'and MARIAN...

A translation of Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" that is based on the original text published in November 1899.

Marigold and Roseand is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück.“Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V. So beginsand Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life...

And then there were three . . . Once upon a time four sisters confronted their demonic father in the shadowy and enchanting other-world of Everwhere. The battle between them ended in devastating losses. The scars they carried from that fatal night slowly pushed...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic - to terror, too, perhaps.'Considered one of...

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key...

They will have justice. They will show their power. They will not burn.'Three women's fight for survival in a time of madness' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author ofand The MerciesNorway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations...

One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations-now also in our elegant black spine dressRyünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists-a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rashömon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawa's...

THERE'S NOTHING AS GOOD AS THE RICH GONE BAD'One of the most deliciously twisted families ever put to page' Riley SagerWith the death of his adopted mother, Camden McTavish hopes that he can finally be free of his scandalous family. Ruby McTavish was North...

A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino.You go into a bookshop and buyand If on a Winter's Night a Travellerand by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking...

This collection of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tales makes a stylish addition to any home library.Fairy tales are timeless treasures passed from one generation to the next, and few are as beloved as those of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. From the princess...

Curl up with this collection of classic scary stories from the masters of the genre.With dozens of stories of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural,and Classic Horrorand Talesand is sure to keep readers on the edges of their seats. This collection of works by classic...

Follow the adventures of spirited reader, Anne Shirley, as she settles into her new home, makes friends, and stirs up trouble.Farm-owning siblingsand Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert want to adopt a boyand to help them around the farm. In a mix-up, theand orphanage sends them...

You'll be burning the midnight oil to discover the tortured tales of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights.Discover a passionate tale of love lost, found, and avenged inand Wuthering Heights. Lockwood, a wealthy man from England, rents a house from an eccentric gentleman named Heathcliff,...

Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles'and The Three Theban Playsand are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.Collected here areand Antigone,and Oedipus the Kingand...

Set in a provincial Russian town, Demons (also known as The Devils and The Possessed), follows a circle of revolutionaries led by Pyotr Verkhovensky, a cunning agitator who orchestrates a campaign of subversion.Using lies, blackmail, and violence, Pyotr seeks to incite rebellion, manipulating the...

An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists.This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use...

First published in 1667, Paradise Lost is a towering epic that explores the cosmic struggle between good and evil, the fall of humankind, and the complexities of free will, Written in majestic blank verse, the poem recounts Satan's rebellion against God, his descent into...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's elegant and incisive portrait of passion restrained by social convention. Set in the upper-class circles of 1870s New York, the novel follows Newland Archer, a well-bred young lawyer engaged to the beautiful...

The Butler is an extraordinary tale of family, difficult decisions and destiny, from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel. Everything happens for a reason . . . Joachim von Hartmann is born into a wealthy Argentine banking family and spends his early years in...

John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and...

HUSTLERS meets BIG LITTLE LIES inand the heist of the summer…Aand NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLER Propulsive and captivating'and Vogue Darkly comedic'and Daily MailMeet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life's boxes. She's married to a successful surgeon and has just taken an...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.' Shipwrecked...

Bridesmaidsand meetsand Black Mirrorand in the most twisted and entertaining thriller you'll read this year. A firecracker of a book' Micah Nemerever Glorious'and Red Wildly creative and wickedly funny' Laurie Elizabeth FlynnRobin and Ellie have been best friends since childhood. They've been through everything,...

Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, can George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy survive the ultimate test of their friendship:...

A fresh and compulsively readable new translation of the Persian epicand Shahnameh, for fans of Edith Hamilton'sand MythologyA combination of myth and history,and Shahnamehand is a classic work by one of Persia's greatest poets. Written more than 1,000 years ago in a series of...

The Empire of the Great Mughalsand explores the political, military and economic rise of the Mughals in the early sixteenth century, their system of rule, the remarkable unfolding of their power and splendour, and their gradual collapse, until they were finally supplanted by the...

When the British dismantled their Raj in 1947 India, as the successor' state, inherited the colonial unitary central apparatus whereas Pakistan, as the seceding' state, had no semblance of a central government. In The State of Martial Rule Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialectic between...

For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood Freedom comes in many forms... At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had...

In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work...

The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe-even the mafia-in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author ofand Dial A for Aunties.Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would...

The new book from the bestselling author ofand Why Women Are Blamed for EverythingAngry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever norms or...

'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason...'Lady Constance...

Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdomand offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language.Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated female writers in history, best known for her novels about...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!'Epic and tragic in its scope, King Lear explores a king's demise into madness and insanity when he is betrayed by two of his manipulative...

Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon loyal to the Norman king Richard I. Because of this loyalty, and his love for Lady Rowena, Ivanhoe is cast out by his father, a Saxon loyalist determined to liberate the Saxon people from Norman rule. He plans...

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as everIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire.and From their conversation emerges to series of subtle reflections on gender roles,...

This is the essential one-volume edition ofand The Arabian Nights, abridged from the celebrated new three-volume translation. Included are the timeless and unforgettable stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, and many others, in a handy companion to the...

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Fifty-one years have passed since Fermina rebuffed Florentino and married Juvenal Urbino instead. Swearing his love to her, he lives for the day when he can court...

Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve...

Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works,and Notes from Undergroundand andand The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson.Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of...

Pakistan's transformation from a country once projected as a model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist take over dominates the headlines. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with the United States since 9/11; others...

Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age.Often described as the “Great American Novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald'sand The Great Gatsbyand is the quintessential story of love, ambition, and wealth in the Roaring Twenties. In the...

A thrillingly dark novel from 'Japan's Agatha Christie' (Sunday Times)While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally...