Mother's Day Fiction

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage....

Orwell's peerless satire, in Penguin Clothbound Classics for the first time. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take...

For fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles, She and Her Cat, and The Goodbye Cat - this huge international sensation with a touch of magical realism tells of a mysterious clinic where cats are prescribed to heal its ailing patients. For fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles, discover the award-winning Japanese sensation - a charming celebration of the healing power...

The new novel by the Number 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'This summer's biggest read' SUNDAY TIMES 'A richly drawn page-turner' OBSERVER 'Beautifully written, immersive' THE TIMES 'Our favourite TJR novel yet' COSMOPOLITAN 'I absolutely adored...

Herman Melville's profound and timeless inquiry into one man's obsession, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful' - Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve 'Heartbreaking and life affirming' - Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters 'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love – this novel has everything' - Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes From the author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran,...

Six people gather on a fabulous Greek island, each one hoping that ten days in the sun, writing their life stories, will magically fix their lives. Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start. Five years after her career as a TV therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she is opening a retreat in Corfu. The understated, luxurious...

Poet Darby Hudson presents an expanded collection of his viral Instagram posts, in which he offers a deeply human glimpse into his mother's unique way of looking at the world, inspiring readers to find joy in every moment.Darby, Love . . . is equal parts wonder, chaos, and humanity. It's a conversation between the living and the dead, mom and son,...

A beautiful boxed set of six of Dickens's greatest works for the Dickens anniversary year. 2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. To celebrate, we're publishing six of his works in this exclusive and sumptuous boxed set of lavish, clothbound editions, designed by Penguin's own award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith....

A chilling collection of Henry James's finest ghost stories, now in a wonderful Clothbound Classics edition. In The Turn of the Screw, one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger—and if so, from whom?...

The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories is the ultimate festive anthology, featuring the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world. Now available in a beautiful clothbound edition, this collection offers a rich array of festive tales. Discover Truman Capote making whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama, Laurie Lee sliding across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire, and Shirley Jackson...

The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time. My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin's debut novel, follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn—closely modelled on Franklin herself—as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life. Growing up on her parents' outback farm, Sybylla is desperate to read, write, sing, and achieve...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean. Jean Rhys's late masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition 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. The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful...

Henry James's masterpiece, now available in a delightful new clothbound edition. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond....

Steinbeck's lyrical and moving novel, now in an elegant clothbound edition. The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds "the pearl of the world," he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to...

Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft, conveying the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with...

George Eliot's masterful classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition. 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. Middlemarch, George Eliot's most ambitious novel, is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a...

The searing, tragic French classic in a gorgeous clothbound edition. Madame Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her...

A beautiful clothbound edition of Hardy's most tragic novel. 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. Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild,...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition 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. Cranford, Gaskell's best-known work, is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and...

A stunning clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel, soon to be a major BBC drama. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical...

THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE STORYTELLER NEARLY ONE BILLION COPIES SOLD They promised never to say goodbye... For Michael and Nancy, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end, bringing the hardest test of their love for each other. He was the handsome heir to the mighty Hillyard business empire. She was just twenty-one, beautiful—and an orphan from nowhere. One...

Vladimir Nabokov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or...

Jane Austen: The Complete Works collects the complete works of Jane Austen in clothbound classics, brought together for the first time in a Coralie Bickford-Smith-designed box set. Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | Love and Freindship Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social...

Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now featured in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics series. Heart of Darkness has been considered for much of the twentieth century as a literary classic and a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians, representing one of...

A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition. In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice. These new versions show...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, this edition of Treasure Island is beautifully 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. The story of Treasure Island grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition 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. Great Expectations Pip doesn't expect much from life... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on...

Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of personality and evil, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with damnable young man Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition 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. Sense and Sensibility follows the story of the Dashwood sisters, Marianne and Elinor, as they navigate the complexities of love and society. Marianne, who...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition 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. I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards, wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was...

This beautifully designed, clothbound edition is part of Penguin's hardback Clothbound Classics series, crafted 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. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton,...

THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE STORYTELLER NEARLY ONE BILLION COPIES SOLD From shattered dreams to lasting love . . . Every time Samantha went back to the flat, John's words rang through her head: 'I can't live with you any more - I've got to get out.' He's been seeing another woman, and now she was promising him the one thing Sam...

Monkey King, also known as Journey to the West, is one of the pinnacles of Chinese literature, brought to life in a masterful new translation by the award-winning Julia Lovell. This vibrant and imaginative tale, often attributed to Wu Cheng'en, was written during the Ming dynasty and stands as one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. The story unfolds during...

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin is a monumental work that delves deep into the human psyche and the complexities of love and identity. This beautiful new clothbound edition of Baldwin’s ground-breaking novel further solidifies his status as one of the great American writers of his time. Set against the evocative backdrop of 1950s Paris, the story revolves around David, a...

They promised never to say goodbye... For Michael and Nancy, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end, bringing the hardest test of their love for each other. He was the handsome heir to the mighty Hillyard business empire. She was just twenty-one, beautiful—and an orphan from nowhere. One fateful day after graduation, they sealed a bond for...

As one of the world's richest women, beautiful Kezla Saint Martin was the pampered darling of the jet-set, her life a careless round of glamourous games. But those games had rules of their own, and Kezla was harbouring secret longings. She wanted all that lavish world provided—and more. Then Kezla met Lucas Johns: bold, dynamic—a man with a lust for...

This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: ‘We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.’ When Social...