I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision h...
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...
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'...
"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...
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.
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter...
In 1986, legendary musician Tucker Crowe disappeared from the public eye and for 20 years, his rabid fans have speculated his whereabouts.Annie lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to...
Fourteen days together. Fifteen years apart.Their love story isn't over yet...When Abbie met Oz they were young, idealistic students from different backgrounds, but their connecti...