King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years. For most of that time he enjoyed, if not popularity, then great wealth and power. Yet to posterity his entire reign has come to be embodied i...
'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (a...
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obs...
In a Shepherd's Bush bedsit, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper.Until the fateful day she stumbles on a truly shoc...
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Burton's masterpiece, this fully edited, modern edition is published as a landmark hardback volume in Penguin Classics.Robert Burton's labyrin...
'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange ph...
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in mak...
Your first love, your first time, your first heartbreak. The new novel from Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places.You were my first. Not just sex, although that was part of it...
'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years' Irvine Welsh'Dazzlingly ambitious' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain'A gloriously transgressive novel'...
„Zapomnij o całym świecie, zapomnij, że stoję za twoimi plecami. Daj się ponieść muzyce. Otwórz się na ten rytm…”Julita, uczennica warszawskiego liceum, w niczym nie...
"Three sisters.Three secrets.Three ways to fall . . .Forcibly seduced by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and King's favourite, doctor's daughter Hester was cast asi...
The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions ...
Sarah loves being a mother - it defines her.Every year she writes a birthday letter of love to her adored daughter, Izzy, now seven. And after she falls pregnant, she promises Izzy that...
Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to...
James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes note...
Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues.Joseph is shaking off ...
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it?But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a...
Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Will loves his life. Living carefree off the royalties of his dad's Christmas song, he's rich, unattached and has zero responsibilities - just the way he likes it.