Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been...

Ten hotspots for the future of geopolitics explored with clarity and wit in this cogently argued volume from the foreign affairs journalist and author of Prisoners of Geography and Worth Dying For. Ten maps that reveal the future of global power and...

Written in the wake of the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1938, Boschwitz’s immersive novel recounts the flight of a Jewish businessman across Germany in unbearably suspenseful and disturbingly prophetic prose.  Berlin, November 1938. With storm troopers...

Having produced one of the sharpest biographies of the last decade in Ma’am Darling, Craig Brown returns with a dynamic, revisionist look at The Beatles and their legacy, fifty years after the band split up. Empire Non-Fiction Book of the Month for...

Deliciously sinister and genuinely disturbing, Cummins’s twisted thriller of a killer child and a double murder under re-investigation draws the reader into a darkly compelling world of secrets and betrayal. Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and...

Following a young British-Asian lawyer who’s broken away from her family’s criminal background after her father’s murder, The Khan is a gripping and multifaceted crime thriller that explores the meaning of community and justice with breathtaking...

Another electrifying psychological thriller from the author of We Know You Knowfocusing on the deadly rivalry at the heart of an elite production of Swan Lake.     Longlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2021 Swan Lake...

Insidious and ingeniously plotted, Faulkner’s lithe psychological thriller finds a troubled expectant mum inveigling her way into the lives of another pregnant woman and her seemingly perfect family. Helen has it all... Daniel is the perfect husband...

(Available on July 28, 2021)From the world of Avatar: The Last Airbendercomes the instant USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel starring Avatar Kyoshi-now in paperbackAfter years of searching for the next Avatar, the four nations have found...

A darkly humorous and touching study in grief and companionship, Nunez’s award-winning novel follows a woman who unexpectedly loses her mentor and best friend and inherits his huge, bereaved Great Dane. A moving story of love, friendship, grief,...

This moving memoir by a Korean-born author who grew up in Oregon is a touching meditation on twofold cultural inheritance, adoption and finding your roots. All You Can Ever Know tells both a personal story and a universal one, discussing reverently the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE.An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen.The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most...

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2018. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to...

As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIn Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Canceris one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminTropic of...

Inspired by Green’s phenomenally popular podcast of the same name, this eclectic collection of beautifully crafted essays touches on everything from spherical bacteria to Taco Bell breakfast menus – all linked by their relevance to this current,...

*** If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabuland enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran ***1953, Tehran. In a small shop in a country on the brink of unrest, two people meet for the very first time.Roya loves...

"Mark Sullivan has done it again! The Last Green Valley is a compelling and inspiring story of heroism and courage in the dark days at the end of World War II." --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom the author of the #1 bestseller...

(Available after 13 May, 2021)The perfect family. The perfect chance. The perfect lie. A stunning novel about motherhood and betrayal, for readers who love Sarah Vaughan and Louise Candlish. 'Deliciously dark and totally twisted' ERIN KELLY 'Very acute...

"Brilliant, shocking and very creepy. Mark Edwards has done it again."--Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway seriesA perfect summer. A perfect stranger. A perfect nightmare.When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered...