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Gillian Flynn

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful…

Ernest Hemingway

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. In…

Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama

What is the key to a joyful life? Two of the world's most influential spiritual leaders, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have come together to share their thoughts on achieving…

Mark Twain

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals.…

Khaled Hosseini

Emily St. John Mandel

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, STATION ELEVEN tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of…

Herbert George Wells

'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare'When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the…

Daniel Defoe

'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that…

Ernest Hemingway

New cover reissue of this novel set in Paris and Spain during the twenties.

Jeff VanderMeer

All 3 titles in "The Southern Reach" trilogy, now in paperback. These books have launched VanderMeer's creepy and haunting sci-fi visions into the mainstream. 'This trilogy is a modern mycological m…

Bryan Stevenson

Charles Dickens

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised…

Jhumpa Lahiri

"Charts the story of a boy brought up as an Indian in suburban America. Chosen as a "New York Times" Notable Book of 2003. "A joy to read" "Sunday Telegraph""

Rohinton Mistry

Art Spiegelman

In a world where Jews are mice, Germans are Cats and the Polish are pigs, a son documents his parents' experience during the Holocaust and his relationship with his father.

Kate Tempest

Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers…

Sandra Cisneros

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed…

John Steinbeck

New-cover edition with introduction by Susan Shillinglaw.

George Saunders

Jean Kwok

Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment.…

Stephen King

In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly…

Max Porter

An extraordinary debut, part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief. A pair of motherless children are visited by Crow, attracted to the grieving family and threatening to stay until…

Chris Cleave

The publishers of Cleave's new novel don't want to spoil the story by revealing too much about it. They will say that the beach scene is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian…

Colm Toibin

It is Ireland in the 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scare. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving…