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**Winner of the 2021 European Union Literature Prize**One apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realise: Elisabeth starved to death,...

This remarkable Brazilian novel has been garlanded with multiple awards and accolades since its initial publication, as Desesterro: the prestigious Sesc Prize for Literature, the Machado de Assis award and...

This is a disturbing and exhilarating novel in which the anonymous protagonist, a dealer offering a range of the latest chemicals designed to make consumers forget everything, finds his past...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale'In the heart of...

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and...

Drawing on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War, Carlos Gamerro's An Open Secret is a compelling postmodern thriller confronting guilt, complicity and the treachery of language itself. Dario Ezcurra is...

Sputnik, the Virgin Mary, a murder... 1957. In the secluded Eastern European village of Baia Luna, life orbits around church, work, home and the pub. This is very much the...

Winner of France's Prix Goncourt in 1988, this novel is concerned with world history between 1883 and 1954, with democracy and with the spirit of the individual. The resilient, bouncy...

'Profane, funny, and uncomfortably honest' - Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love.He is older and beautiful, a Derrida-quoting intellectual.He is also a serial cheater, gaslighter...

Alex has spent the majority of his adult life torn between two very different women-and he can't make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a...

It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer....

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes...

A heart warming and irresistible novel about the rejuvenating power of pottery, for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold and What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.She...

In 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the most mysterious of oriental sovereigns, the Negus, or King, of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). Louis's hope was to lure that...

A treasury of selected quotations from one of the world's best-loved and best-selling writers and the author of The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho is seen by millions as an alchemist of...

From the author of 'The House of Spirits' - teenage Maya is in trouble. She's an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all...

A special night edition to celebrate the success of The Convenience Store by the Sea. Everything you loved about the original in a stunning new companion package.Welcome to Tenderness. Our...

'THE QUEEN OF SCANDINAVIAN CRIME THRILLERS' RED'A THRILLER WRITER OF THE HIGHEST ORDER' LIZA MARKLUNDHanna Wilhelmsen investigates a brutal series of murders in this chilling mystery perfect for fans of...

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal...

A seeker after truth will be hunted as prey. When controversial Professor Kristian Storm is found hanged in his office, his assistant Marie Skov refuses to believe that he has...

From one of the world's best-loved storytellers comes a magical novel of adventure and discovery - the sequel to Isabel Allende's bestselling City of the Beasts. Fifteen-year-old Alex Cold, his...

Set at the end of the 19th century, this novel is a tale of mutiny and shipwreck. The narrator, Peder Jensen, is both competent second mate and unworldly philosopher. Esther...

When an unusual building appeared overnight in a remote northern Cape community in the 1970s, and disappeared a few weeks later, it seemed to point to a series of baffling...

The beautiful Alicia hatches a plot to ensnare the wealthy foreign visitors to Castro?s Cuba through an elaborate scam involving a broken bicycle and her voluptuous charms. Taking choreographed spills...

Aldo Bianchi, an Argentine former revolutionary living in Italy, travels to Havana where he meets the beautiful Bini, a young girl working the hotels with great wit and panache. Bianchi...

Read the lost masterpiece behind the major new film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle WilliamsSet during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Francaise falls into two...

Tanja and Jerome are navigating a long-distance relationship in a world of constant communication and emotional hyper-reflection. Whether they're texting one another trip updates from midday raves or debating the...

When a woman's body is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, investigators discover shocking secrets in her past. First in the disturbing, chillingly atmospheric, addictive new...