Adult & Contemporary Fiction

The best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo PaduraA Penguin ClassicDissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like...

One of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro ZambraA...

The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and...

'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting and by the stories it tells' -- A. N. Wilson'Where there is great love there are always miracles'Two French priests...

For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock HolmesA Penguin ClassicFor The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual...

AN OPRAH DAILY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The beloved author of Early Morning Riserbrings us glittering stories of love—friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised...

“A simmering slow burn bursting with banter. This is a romance for anyone who’s ever felt too messy to be loved.”—ROSIE DANAN, author of The RoommateIn this fierce and funny battle of the exes, Ashley Winstead's Fool Me Once...

The epic sequel to the book Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is a fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China.The Demon Gods have risen. Skies’ End has fallen to the colonizers. And Lan and Zen have...

It’s hard to tell what’s more shocking: The nature of the story when it was written or just how pertinent it is today. Maybe these points are equally so — which means you have a couple great reasons to delve into this unearthed classic...

A thrilling and propulsive novel of an Antarctica expedition gone wrong and its far-reaching consequences for the explorers and their families "leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story" (Hilary Mantel)...

A mesmerizing, “fiery page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) about a teenage boy on summer vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and becomes trapped in a spiral of guilt and desire—in the tradition of Alice McDermott’s That Night...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the...

A logosophistic approach to one of the most original novelists of our time.

GRAB THE JOYOUSLY FESTIVE AND HEART-WARMINGLY ROMANTIC NEW NOVEL FROM EMILY BELL, WINNER OF THE 2023 ROMANTIC NOVELISTS PRIZEAfter yet another heartbreak, Natasha is flying home for Christmas to Ballyclare, the beautiful old house in the Wicklow hills...

Two strangers. One double-booked cottage. This Christmas will be one to remember. . .Rose used to love Christmas - until the year everything changed. She hasn't been home to visit her family for the holidays since.Charlie is facing his first Christmas...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.'A touching celebration of the beauty and endurance of female friendship. There is nothing mightier. Fact.' -- DAWN FRENCHThe new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the smash-hit,...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'A terrific novel' -- FINANCIAL TIMES'A radically beautiful new novel' -- SHEILA HETI, author of Pure ColourParis, 1775: Celine's husband is mostly absent. Her...

A TIME MAGAZINE BEST YA BOOK OF ALL TIME.Beloved by generations of readers, Elsewhere is an original, moving novel about love, loss, and the meaning of it all from the New York Times–bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and...

VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES: stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written. Emma Bovary is an avid...

The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Némirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, Irène sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and...