He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others.'Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his ...
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change...
Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on the spot, havering on the threshold between the bedroom and the dying one... all the while crad...
A wife who must keep her affair secret. A husband who has the power to bring her lover down.A marriage that could end in murder.Beth was still reeling from the end of her affair t...
Four friends. Five Letters. One Secret. A scandalous breakthrough novel from Nicola Moriarty that will leave you asking, how well do I really know my friends? Joni, Trina, Deb and Eden. Best friend...
Seven days of sin. Seven days of secrets. Seven days to steal her sister's life.Beth has always been the golden girl, leaving her identical twin, Alvie, in her shadow. She has everythin...
Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose looks...
22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life.SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind.There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing ...
The phone call signalling an escalation in the Hudson Adjustment Problem came at 10:18 a.m. on a Friday . . .'Meet Don Tillman, the genetics professor with a scientific approach to ever...
Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they l...
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with he...
None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? <...
When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat - but real life isn't always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she's the only child of a young, single mum, and her life is decid...
A seminal and hugely imaginative work of early science fiction, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel, edited by Patrick Parrinder with an introduc...
It is the summer before Elle goes off to college and everything is changing. All too quickly, Elle's plans for the future are shaken up when she's taken off the waitlist for a college she never tho...
A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immor...
On Halloween night, the residents of Black Gale gather for a dinner party. As the only nine people living there, they've become close friends as well as neighbours.They eat, drink and laugh. ...
The new Kurt Austin adventure in the NUMA Files series from UK No. 1 bestseller Clive Cussler.The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving ...
How far would you go to keep the man of your dreams?Hypnotherapist Ellen is fascinated by what makes people tick. So when she falls in love with Patrick, the fact that he has a stalker ...
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, includ...