Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.…Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera that is. She’s surrounded by loved...

Get lost in this taut tale about mothers and daughters, survival and life from the author of Sea Wife. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER.A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK!“You will open this book and you will not stop reading...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of China’s most popular – and subversive – writers. From the political power of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. ‘As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’ Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen’s short stories offer incisive psychological...

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;...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly... Jewels in storytelling, these magical fairytales by Hans...

In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward...

A dark, fantastical satire of Communist utopianism by the author of The Master and Margarita. Lauded Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Dog’s Heart (sometimes translated as The Heart of a Dog) is...

A very special bottle of wine sends 4 neighbors back to 1950s Paris, where they each find the key to a happy future.“A glorious time-slip caper... Just wonderful”  — Daily Mail.When Hubert Larnaudie, chair of the management...

Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to...

A taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta). An upper-middle class couple in Bangalore, Venkat and Viji, find their quiet life upended—and the flaws in their marriage exposed—when two...

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE. A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. “How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth,...

For the first time ever, stories from the Second Age of Middle-earth have been collected in one volume. Not only that, but it’s also illustrated in watercolor and pencil by none other than Alan Lee! Adhering to the timeline of “The Tale of...

The bestselling dark and thrilling Black sapphic vampire romantasy that questions what it truly means to sacrifice for love.   "This is a lush, intoxicating read, packing tender romance alongside vicious twists. My new obsession!" - Mark Oshiro,...

The sequel to Of Jade and Dragons, a thrilling and epic silkpunk fantasy inspired by the legendary Qing dynasty. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim and Xiran Jay Zhao.Two years after Ying leaves the Engineer’s Guild and the ghost of her...

Every relationship has its secrets and Sawyer's dies alongside her perfect boyfriend. They said it was an accident… it wasn't. An exhilarating thriller, Truly, Madly, Deadly will leave readers chilled to the core.   Sawyer Dodd...

A sexy, dark romantic thriller—with a shocking twist—by the author of Everything We Never Said.River Santos is stuck—in her job at the diner, in her dead-end town, in her grief. Her father died in a house fire just a few months...

From the author of the "wonderfully ingenious" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review) novel After the Crash, a thrilling tale of a murder that takes place in Claude Monet's garden and the mystery that surrounds it.Giverny, France...

Read Alice Munro’s dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. ‘Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and...

A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel...