David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him...

The Penguin English Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited...

Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners...

Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author's own account of her early life holds new...

A compelling, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in an out-of-season seaside town - from a powerful new Canadian-British voice After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy...

With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike – a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles. Setting aside the streamlining,...

They knew they were changing history. They didn't know they would change each other.Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1,000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality,...

On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the...

From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will...

When Darkslayer Darien first took human Loren under his wing, he’d promised to protect her from anything. Now that Loren has fallen into a coma, every day a losing battle to return to life, he is determined to save her.When he hears rumours of the...

LOVE WILL BURN. WAR WILL RISE. AND NOT EVERYONE WILL SURVIVE. The fourth explosive chapter in the dark, addictive House of Devils series ‘This will forever be one of my all-time favorite series’ 5 ⭐ Reader...

Loren and Darien have settled back into their old routines, grateful that the whirlwind of dangers they’d faced on Kalendae are now behind them - or so they think. But Loren soon finds herself caught in a new storm when the Terran Imperator...

She's a human. He's a Darkslayer. He was sent to kill her…not fall for her. The first heart-stopping chapter in the dark, addictive House of Devils series taking TikTok by storm'I LOVE THIS SERIES WITH MY ENTIRE BEING!!' 5 Reader Review'This is...

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION...

Discover the word-of-mouth bestselling phenomenon that thousands of readers are calling their favourite book of the year!THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS...

MURDOKU WILL RETURN IN MURDOKU VOLUME 2: BACK IN TIME!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sudoku just got deadly. Solve the grid. Find the killer.The perfect gift for puzzle lovers―discover the...

‘A fresh, assured voice in Irish crime writing’ Andrea Mara‘Absolutely riveting and eminently readable.’ Liz Nugent‘A writer at the top of her game … I could not look away until the shocking end...

*Longlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026* From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake comes a gripping true story of murder, war and injustice in Nazi-occupied...

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by...

Have you ever questioned why, despite the avalanche of self-help books and optimization hacks, we remain embroiled in multiple global health crises? Populations worldwide are gaining life-shortening excess weight (even in poorer countries), and...