Power never dies . . . and neither does desire.A pansexual bloodmage reluctantly teams up with an undead spirit to start a rebellion among the living and the dead, in this dark fantasy by A.M. Strickland, author of Beyond the Black Door.In Thanopolis,...

"A knockout of a novel...we predict [Infinite Country] will be viewed as one of 2021's best." --O, The Oprah Magazine "An exquisitely told story of family, war, and migration, this is a novel our increasingly divided country wants and needs to read." --R...

From the author of Since You've Been Gone and The Unexpected Everything comes a dreamy story of summer romance and finding yourself, perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah DessenEmpire's June Winners 2021Charlie Grant tries to keep her life as normal as...

'The most wildly entertaining novel I've read in a long time' -- Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionWhen March Briscoe returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife, the Briscoe family...

The peerless Jacqueline Wilson serves up another pitch-perfect slice of fiction with this tender tale of first love and blossoming sexuality. This book contains content suitable for middle grade readers looking for a more challenging reading level...

Sensitive and engrossing, the second children’s novel from the author of Nothing Ever Happens Here centres on a pair of twins navigating big decisions about their families, feelings and identities.  An accessible child-centred story about...

From his 70s glam rock pomp to a settled twenty-first-century family life, the former Reg Dwight has been a consistent, iconic presence in British popular culture for the last fifty years. Meis the refreshingly candid and hugely entertaining memoir of...

Unsparing, beautiful, and devastatingly honest, Greenwell returns with another literary tour de force set amidst the political turbulence of post-Soviet Bulgaria, as an American teacher looks back on the many faces of love, sex and violence he...

Filled with the heat and illicit passion of long summer days, The Great Godden is a shimmering coming-of-age tale from the trailblazing Young Adult author.    Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2021 Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book...

Struggle and ecstasy entwine in Lawlor’s breath-taking debut that combs through 1990s’ queer identity politics with the unique story of shapeshifter Paul Polydoris.    It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town...

Hugo is spending the holidays on his friend Dorian's home planet, Hydrox. Although thrilled at the invitation, Hugo is still astonished that Duke Dorian could possibly want to be friends with an android watchmaker like him. But when the pair land on...

A hilarious queer rom-com from the author of Noah Can’t Even, Heartbreak Boys finds two jilted guys determined to show their exes they can have just as good a time without them. Sparky, sprightly, touching and funny, Green’s joyous novel is a ray of...

'An astounding debut . . . unlike anything I've read before' - Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the WyldDoes she owe her life to those planning her death . . .Csorwe was raised by a death cult steeped in old magic. And on her fourteenth birthday,...

'Honest and moving' --Independent on SundayFreddie Mercury was a rock superstar like no other. Recently the focus of the Academy Award-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody, he generated over $1 billion worth of sales in a career spanning two decades. But for...

`When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.` With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, `The Metamorphosis.` It is the...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with an introduction by William Mills Todd III.Returning to...

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in...

During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and...

'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death.'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues,...

More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, Notre-Dame de Paris, is translated with an introduction by John Sturrock in Penguin Classics.In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame...