Geoffrey Staddon turned his back on the best things in his life. He turned his back on the beautiful house Clouds Frome, his finest achievement as an architect. He turned his back on the woman…
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR A stunning story of loss, love and a moment that changed everything . . . 1958 Celestria, the charismatic daughter of an aristocratic family, lives in Pendrift Hall, a pale…
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell’s GRAIL QUEST series, in a bright and bold repackage. It is 1347. The Hundred Years War has…
Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that takes him across Europe. Abandoning his job and his life and travelling with a dusty old book as his talisman,…
‘I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever’ Mary Shelley’s dark story of a bereaved man’s disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over…
By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man’s dream and a woman”s nightmare. She is also dead….
In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts to impose his rigid worldview on his family circle,…
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginning of a revolution, soon revealed itself…
The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.’s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into the obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. His rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. The Big Nowhere…
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is…
When a man plunges down a cliff, two adventurous young friends decide to find his killer… While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His…
***THE SUNDAY TIMES & NO.1 EBOOK BESTSELLER*** ‘Twisty and gripping’ Erin Kelly ‘I read it in one go’ Marian Keyes ‘I loved it’ Rachel Abbott Loved FRIEND REQUEST? Laura Marshall’s sensational new thriller, THREE LITTLE…
‘This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.’ A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80…
Tilly Dunnage left her hometown of Dungatar in rural Australia under a black cloud of accusation. Years later Tilly, now a couturier for the Paris fashion houses, returns home to make amends with her mentally…
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison’s blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. ‘I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.’ Defeated and embittered by a country…
`Wondering if Into the Water could be as good as The Girl on the Train? It’s better. A triumph.’ Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of I Let You Go The addictive No. 1 psychological thriller from…
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY 2018 An Amazon Best Book of the Year The incredible conclusion to the record-breaking triple…
‘Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life’ Margaret Drabble Growing up in the world of the ‘five towns’ of industrial England, with their furnaces…
‘Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII’s much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery’ Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne…
Agatha Christie’s most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express…
