A gripping domestic psychological thriller, full of shocking family secrets, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and C.L. Taylor! 'Kept me up all night reading' ★★★★★ 'Had me guessing until the end' ★★★★★ 'So many twists and turns that I didn't know what to...

Privilege, sex, scandal, and murder. The new novel from Sunday Times-bestselling author James Frey. 'Will be the novel on every beach towel this summer, all summer, everywhere' Esquire 'A deliriously over-the-top portrait of decadence on the...

The young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn’t faze him. He does things his own way—and gets results.He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he’s...

Every school has its scandals. At St Cordula’s, the next one could be fatal.‘Had me hooked from page one’ JENNIE GODFREY‘Deliciously dark’ JANE FALLON‘Relentlessly gripping… Original, atmospheric’ LUCY...

A FULLY REVISED AND EDITED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC CRIME NOVEL INSPIRED BY THE POPULAR TV SERIES STARRING JANET MCTEERNo one is above the law.Barfield Prison is one of the toughest high-security prisons in England, housing the country's most dangerous...

'A lot of fun to read' New York Times Book ReviewThe Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, are as close as a mother and daughter can be. Yet, while their bond is strong, they are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a...

'DELICIOUS' STYLIST'BINGEWORTHY' NITA PROSE'RAZOR-SHARP' ABIGAIL DEANThere's nothing more dangerous than a guilty conscience.Alice didn't mean to kill the intruder. She only meant to stop him hurting her daughter when he burst into her...

Bella Mackie meets the Eras tour in this compelling thriller - the perfect dark poolside read!Killer tunes.Kirby Turner is on her last chance. With her previous girlband career dead in the water alongside the band's lead singer, Hailey, she's been...

'Nora Breen will become a favourite character' Ian Moore'A glorious read' Amanda Mason'Nora Breen is Maria Von Trapp on steroids' Richard ArmitageSharp-eyed former nun Nora Breen is back, as the latest attraction in Gore-on-Sea turns deadly . . .On a...

'Alex Cross is a legend' HARLAN COBENPatterson is 'one of the best storytellers of our time' JIMMY "MR BEAST" DONALDSONDiscover the next book in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series... now the inspiration for the original series CROSS on Prime...

The Twentieth Anniversary Edition As a young boy, growing up in London and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby - author of High Fidelity, About a Boy and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - had little sense of home. Then his dad took him...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe '... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct!' she exclaimed. 'Nor will I for a minute' Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning...

Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. "A Grain of Wheat" portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the action follows...

A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught...

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of...

The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century JapanWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian...

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention, how to fall downinto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,which is what I have been doing all day.Tell me, what else...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin...