This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken stream of stories about his life – loves won...

The mysterious and unbearably tense tale of a detective’s obsessive pursuit of a child murderer, from one of the post-war era’s greatest writers in German When a young girl is found brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest, the brilliant...

The post-colonial birth, life, and death of the collective consciousness known as the Animal. Middle-aged streamer twins in Bayamn, Puerto Rico, are the first human beings to successfully connect, sharing their consciousness across 34 translucent cables...

‘A ghost story without ghosts that, beyond the beauty of its form, explores solitude, the twists and turns of our lives, and the unfathomable complexities of affection.’ Mariana Enriquez While preparing an empty house for sale, a woman...

When the stakes are at their highest, how low would you go? _____________   Shogo Hatano has beaten thousands of applicants to become one of six final candidates in the running for a graduate position at Japan's most exclusive tech company. Only one...

The hot summer romcom from Vogue dating columnist and author of Notes on Heartbreak, Annie Lord Modern dating’s a mess. Unfortunately, so are they. Daisy and Maya bounce around the city like they own it, from all-night house parties...

Modern dating’s a mess. Unfortunately, so are they.Daisy and Maya bounce around the city like they own it, from all-night house parties to sticky-floored smoking areas, drinks in hand.But after a particularly regrettable one-night stand with her...

A gorgeous deluxe paperback of Japan's greatest murder mystery, from the father of Japanese classic crime and author of Murder at the Black Cat Café.“The premise alone is dazzling [and] the solution to this mystery came as a complete...

SQUID GAME meets MEAN GIRLS in this hit survival drama about keeping up and staying (barely) alive in a girl-eat-girl Tokyo - now with 100,000 copies soldSQUID GAME MEETS MEAN GIRLSTHE #1 JAPANESE HIT ABOUT KEEPING UP AND STAYING...

In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in...

Late spring settles over Edo with a deceptive gentleness – soft rain, a drifting haze, the first warmth of summer. But it is not only fallen blossom that gathers in the streets and woodland of Edo city – there too a terrible villainy lies...

AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. A waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. A doctor puts his...

A collection of 16 short stories from Edmund Crispin featuring his beloved amateur detective, Gervase Fen. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor?Did the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore are in this book driven back into the world of the...

A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France’s greatest novelistIn the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous period...

‘Feminism is hated because women are hated’Why do some women support Right-wing movements, even though they curtail their freedoms? Andrea Dworkin’s timeless, visionary analysis goes to the heart of this contradiction, exploring the...

It’s terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning. Terribly important.Sometimes, the person you think you love isn’t who they seem. And sometimes, you can be your own...

A sliver of limpid, chilling prose set in the heart of the scorching Mediterranean, Spark’s jet-black novella marches compellingly to a shocking nihilistic end that we know is coming from the first chapter. One of the great Scottish writer’s...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMuriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise – heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily...

The Boy Wonder—who he is and how he came to be!After months of training to become Batman's crime-fighting partner, young orphan Dick Grayson is finally ready to take to the night as Robin. But this job requires more than just his fists. As he...