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  • Ball Lightning
    Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning...
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  • By Night in Chile
    A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda,...
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  • The Outsider
    The Outsider, Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, is now available in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics edition. In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others....
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  • We
    The first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. Special futuristic 3D cover edition! Comes with 3D glasses! As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically...
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  • Complete Stories
    Major new collection of Clarice Lispector's short stories for the first time in English. The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend— from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives...
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  • If Cats Disappeared From The World
    Our narrator is a humble and solitary postal worker whose life takes an unexpected turn when he receives devastating news: he has only months to live. Estranged from his family and living alone with his cat, Cabbage, he is abruptly confronted with the brevity of his existence. As he grapples with his diagnosis, an unusual encounter occurs. The Devil visits...
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  • The Elephant Vanishes
    In The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami masterfully weaves a collection of often surreal and always thought-provoking short stories that challenge the boundaries of reality and everyday life. Through his signature blend of the magical and the mundane, Murakami crafts a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and the unreal becomes familiar. These stories delve into the lives of seemingly average...
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  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday
    Without even realising it, we may touch and change someone else's life. This is the debut novel by the multi-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library. Much-loved modern classic by the bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Readers love Hot...
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  • Hello Baby
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    ‘Illuminating … beautifully’ LYDIA KIESLING ‘I loved it’ ANNA HOGELAND ‘Intimate, searing’ RAMONA AUSUBEL A cult feminist hit in South Korea, Hello Baby is a gripping and intimate portrait of motherhood, fertility and womanhood for fans of Butter and Breasts and Eggs. Outside the chat, they had different jobs, personalities, financial backgrounds, but inside, they were all mothers-to-be anxiously awaiting...
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  • The Moon Glow Bookshop
    What if you could turn the pages of your own life, like the pages of your favourite book? Somewhere along the ordinary alleys you pass by every day, a mysterious shop appears between all the other familiar buildings. Surely, you didn't see it yesterday or the day before. A large sign reads The Moon Glow Bookshop but it seems to...
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  • The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is an enduring masterpiece of adventure and retribution that entices readers into the world of the early 19th century. Set against the vivid backdrop of post-Napoleonic France, the story follows Edmond Dantès, a young and promising sailor, whose life takes a cruel turn when he is falsely accused of treason. Betrayed by...
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  • Notes from Underground and the Double
    In a new translation by Ronald Wilks Notes from Underground (1864) is a study of a single character, "the real man of the Russian majority," and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his "most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly...
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  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories
    A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics. This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement,...
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    Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 3
    Their passion is undeniable, but can their love survive the winter? The third volume of the official webcomic based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Suji Kim.As the first snow falls over Anatol, Maxi begins to settle into her new life as the wife of Riftan Calypse. But even as she makes progress in her magical studies with...
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  • Tales from 1,001 Nights
    An enchanting clothbound edition of the essential tales drawn from the acclaimed translation of The Arabian Nights. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Every night for three years, the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with...
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  • The Vegetarian
    The Vegetarian by Han Kang is an intoxicating and visceral novel that delves into the psyche of a woman seeking transformation and liberation from societal norms. The story centres around Yeong-hye, an unremarkable yet dutiful wife living in Seoul, South Korea. Her life is thrown into turmoil when she decides to stop eating meat, a decision that baffles and enrages...
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  • Please Form Pairs
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    MEAN GIRLS MEETS SQUID GAME ARE YOU READY TO PLAY? THE #1 JAPANESE HIT ABOUT KEEPING UP AND STAYING (BARELY) ALIVE 1. Please form pairs2. You cannot pair with someone twice3. Anyone without a partner will be executed   Mishin Mizushima isn't nearly cool enough by Japanese standards. Not even her mum is a fan, ditching her in their micro-apartment...
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  • A Game of Cat and Killer
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    "Murder mystery fans and cat lovers get ready for an iconic new series" Janice Hallet "Think Agatha Christie with claws" A.J. Finn "You can absolutely see why Jiro Akagawa is such a staple of Japanese crime fiction" Kristen Perrin Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and... women. When a young female student is found...
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  • The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
    A twisty standalone thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair. "Twists, turns, cliffhangers and red herrings galore" The Times "Nothing will matter to you more than finishing this book" Elle In the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea reels from the discovery of four murders. Two young police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and...
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  • Under the Oak Tree, Vol. 2 (novel)
    The first English print edition of a Korean smash-hit web novel. Most fairytales end with a wedding and a happily-ever-after - but this is no fairytale. The updated and official translation of Under the Oak Tree, the #1 webnovel on MANTA, continues in this second volume. As her first winter in Anatol turns to spring, Lady Maximilian finds herself confronting...
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  • The Midnight Timetable
    From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a new novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research centre that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own... The acclaimed Korean horror and...
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  • The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
    For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, What You Are Looking for Is In the Library, and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop comes an enchanting novel that will linger in your heart long after the last page is turned. As the last petal falls, the final page is turned… Welcome to The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop, a haven for...
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  • The Burrow
    A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but...
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  • Bookstore Girls
    Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love? The Japanese bestseller that kicked off a seven-book series - adapted for TV and 200,000 copies sold Bookstore Girls follows the story of Riko Nishioka, the assistant manager of the flagship Pegasus bookstore in Kichijoji. After working her way up from a part-time position, she...
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  • The Amberglow Candy Store
    The Amberglow Candy Store is a charming fable-like novel in translation about half-fox shopkeeper Kogetsu, who learns life and emotional lessons through his interactions with the customers in his shop. It is perfect for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold. This delightful book of linked stories adds a sprinkle of cosy fantasy and a fable-like touch. The story takes...
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  • Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
    What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. A lavishly illustrated edition of Murakami's classic short story. Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It was powerfully built, standing over six feet tall on its hind legs. A skinny little man no more than five foot three, Katagiri was overwhelmed by the frog's imposing...
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  • I Who Have Never Known Men
    The Handmaid's Tale meets The Road in this haunting, heartbreaking tale of female resilience in a post-apocalyptic world. SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL. Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no...
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  • Advent
    Every winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards. With his dog and his ram by his side, traversing wild snowstorms and crystalline nights, fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee, Benedikt dedicates himself to helping other living beings in need. It is midwinter in...
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  • The Cabin
    The second instalment in the Cold Case Quartet from one of Scandinavia's most successful writers. It's been fifteen years since Simon Meier walked out of his house, never to be seen again. And just one day since politician Bernard Clausen was found dead at his cabin on the Norwegian coast. When Chief Inspector William Wisting is asked to investigate, he...
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  • Sanshiro
    Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics. One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour...
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  • The Little Demon
    Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder. As he pursues the idea of marrying...
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  • Master and Man and Other Stories
    The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades, experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism, and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, The Two Hussars contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, What Men...
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  • Chess
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd – a man...
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  • The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank. A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife's suicide; a witness to a young girl's ruin; a writer who stretches out on a gravestone and listens...
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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
    At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that he had encountered death itself. These seven compelling stories explore, in very different ways, his subsequent preoccupation with mortality. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question —...
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  • The Castle
    The Castle is Kafka's last great, unfinished novel— the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. The Castle tells the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and...
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  • The Birds
    New to Penguin Modern Classics, a moving portrayal of the fragility of the human mind and an acclaimed Norwegian masterpiece. The Birds is the story of Mattis, a mentally handicapped man who lives with and is cared for by his older sister, Hege. Within their isolated, lakeside existence, Mattis cannot make sense of his tangled thoughts, frightening apparitions, surges of...
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  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories
    A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann. A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection...
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  • The Trial
    The Trial is Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror, featuring a new introduction and notes by Carolin Duttlinger. This terrifying psychological journey follows Joseph K., an ordinary man who unexpectedly finds himself accused of a crime he did not commit. The nature of this crime is never revealed to him. After his arrest, he is released but must report to...
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  • Beautiful Star
    Beautiful Star is the novel Yukio Mishima considered to be one of his best works— a tale of family, nuclear war, love, and UFOs. The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, Mother from Jupiter, Son from Mercury, and Daughter from Venus. Already seen as oddballs in their small...
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  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
    Breathtakingly inventive – David Mitchell A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be...
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  • Tales from the Cafe
    In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom...
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  • We Do Not Part
    Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history. Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to...
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  • Our Share of Night
    His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast. Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him. For years, they have exploited his father's ability to commune with the dead...
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  • The Alaska Sanders Affair
    "If you liked The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair, you will love this" The Times "One of the world's most original voices in crime fiction" A. J. Finn, #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the Window The murder of Alaska Sanders was quickly solved. Within days, two suspects were identified. One died, the other pleaded guilty. Case closed....
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  • The Count of Monte Cristo (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
    In The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas crafts an enduring tale of betrayal, hope, and redemption, set against the vibrant backdrop of early 19th-century France. Follow the extraordinary journey of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who is wrongly imprisoned on the eve of his wedding. This captivating novel takes readers through his harrowing experiences in the forbidding Château d'If,...
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  • Sputnik Sweetheart
    Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami is a poignant exploration of unrequited love, identity, and the mysteries of existence, set against the backdrop of Murakami's signature blend of magical realism and existential inquiry. At its core, the novel follows twenty-two-year-old Sumire, an aspiring writer with a bohemian flair, who finds herself in love for the first time. Her unexpected object of...
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  • Messenger Cat Café
    The heartwarming, magical Japanese bestseller about grief, love, and a cat who will do anything to see his beloved owner again. After a long and happy life with a loving human family, tabby cat Fuuta has passed into the afterlife. But he is not as far from his owner Michiru as it seems. Sometimes the divide between the lands of...
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  • Revenge
    Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. From the author of The Memory Police "A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie...
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  • The Summer Boy
    Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly?On a scruffy resort island off the coast of France, six teenagers—five boys and one girl—band together for a final golden season. Their days are drenched in sun and freedom, and their nights simmer with secrets, jealousy, and longing. Philippe is drawn to Nicolas, the quiet...
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  • Monkey King
    One of the greatest classics of Chinese literature One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong;...
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  • Don Quixote
    The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel Indisputably the definitive translation — Observer If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote — Ben Okri Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the...
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  • Hell Screen
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics—irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the...
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  • The Woman in the Dunes
    New to Penguin Modern Classics One of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where they are...
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  • The Master and Margarita
    A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York Times In Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin's regime, the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full, and the forces of law and order are in disarray....
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  • The Wall
    The Wall is a cult classic, the ultimate work of sustained dread—a story of a woman trapped alone in the forest. A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn, becoming a fight for survival. During her holiday in the Austrian mountains, a woman spends a few days with her cousin and his wife at...
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  • Germinal
    New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece. Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a...
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  • Vita Nostra
    The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel – a brilliant dark fantasy combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way. A book that has the potential to become a modern classic. – Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians Our life is brief . . ....
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  • Before We Say Goodbye
    The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi's poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend...
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  • Hour of the Star
    Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M.,...
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  • The Final Problem
    For fans of The White Lotus, Anthony Horowitz and Benjamin Stevenson, a tricksy murder mystery from the internationally bestselling authorGreece, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel. Nothing could prepare them for what happens next: Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found...
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  • Cursed Bunny
    Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and is the winner of a PEN/Heim Translation Grant. A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told she must find a father for her unborn baby or face horrific consequences. A young monster, forced to fight, discovers the extent of his...
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  • Little Wonder
    A musical prodigy and his mother spend years searching for each other in this beautiful, sweeping novel of hope, perseverance, and love, from Jenna Bush Hager's Thousand Voices imprint. Song is a nobody—just a food delivery worker from a village in Northeastern China—but her son, River, is a little wonder. At the age of three, he toddled to a piano...
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  • The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
    From the authentic and original healing fiction author of Travelling Cat Chronicles comes a 1.4-million-copy bestseller - set in a famously scenic railway line in Japan, following key emotional dramas for five commuters. Discover your next feel-good Japanese novel, by the author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles Over 1.4 million copies sold in Japan 'You will be wrapped in laughter...
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  • How Can My Manager Be So Stupid?
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    How Can My Manager Be So Stupid?
    'Silly, poignant, and utterly relatable' Mara Faye Lentham 'A charming, delightful gem' Susan Coll 'A wry read perfect for anyone who's ever worked in a customer facing job' Mackenzie Reed Kyoko Tanihara still loves books. Just about. But life at the Musashino Bookstore is starting to get her down. Instead of promoting her favourite stories, she finds herself distracted, tearing...
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  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles
    Beautiful new hardback edition including a ribbon, illustrated coloured endpapers and luscious finishes on the front - perfect for gifting at Christmas for new and existing The Travelling Cat Chronicles fans. STUNNING HARDBACK GIFTING EDITION, INCLUDES A RIBBON and SIX LINE DRAWINGS RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF READERS - the uplifting story of a journey around Japan with a cat by...
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  • Cowboy Graves
    Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless gift for shaping the chaos of reality into fiction is unmistakable across these three novellas. In Cowboy Graves, Arturo Belano – Bolaño's alter ego – returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. French Comedy of Horrors finds...
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  • Small Comfort
    * * * LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 * * *'You know, love is love, he says. But what about the revolution?'Intricately built and wickedly humorous, these five interconnected short stories are all about one thing: money.From an interview with a child-star-turned-thief to the mysterious death of an employee at a drug manufacturer - or the couple feigning...
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  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
    Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide. "Salander remains, in Lagercrantz's hands, the enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction" Financial Times "Salander and Blomkvist have survived the authorship transition intact and are just as compelling as ever" New York Times Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force. Sentenced to two months in a women's prison...
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  • The Girl in the Spider's Web
    THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story – and...
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  • Don Quixote
    When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself Don Quixote and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyday objects are transformed into the accoutrements of chivalry, peasant girls become princesses...
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  • The Girl Who Lived Twice
    "Expertly told, the plot crackles with life" - DAILY MAIL "Salander is centre stage . . . A pacy read" - SUNDAY EXPRESS "Exciting and disturbing" - LITERARY REVIEW The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has fresh outrage to avenge As Salander follows the scorched trail of her twin sister to Moscow, Blomkvist fears for her safety. He should, perhaps,...
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  • Harsh Times
    'A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.' - Financial Times Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas....
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  • Mirage
    The epic conclusion to Camilla Läckberg and Henrik Fexeus' pulse-raising Swedish crime thriller trilogy 'Hello Niklas Sockenberg. We hope you have been satisfied with our services during this time, which has now reached its end. You have 14 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes left to live' It is December in Stockholm and Sweden's Minister of Justice is under threat....
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  • To the Moon
    In Seoul, three women in their thirties meet while working mundane jobs at a snack manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their ‘average’ employee report cards, the incompetence of their male team leader, and a mutual longing for financial freedom amid mediocre raises. Eun-sang, the eldest of the group,...
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  • A Hero Born
    NOW A RECORD-BREAKING FILM STARRING THE UNTAMED'S XIAO ZHAN The Chinese LORD OF THE RINGS - now in English for the first time. The series every Chinese reader has been enjoying for decades - 300 million copies sold. One of TIME magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Novels of All Time. "Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency...
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  • The Imitation of the Rose
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of...
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  • The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park
    Authentic healing fiction from the 2.5-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking for is in the Library, set in a suburban community block. PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY Readers adore The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park: 'I wanted to discover the magical hippo in myself as I...
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  • People From My Neighbourhood
    Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep it safe, you never know when you might need it. In Kawakami's super short palm of the hand...
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  • Outside
    Outside by Ragnar Jónasson presents a chilling mystery: Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive... In a deadly Icelandic snowstorm, four friends break into an abandoned hunting lodge, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what's inside... With no other option, they are forced to spend a terrifying night in...
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