Other novels and short stories

‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’ DOLLY ALDERTON What do you do when a girlfriend’s 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s 30th? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is sleeping with someone after 2...

The first book in the Better series is an angsty, sexy new adult college romance from Italian bestseller and Wattpad sensation Carrie Leighton. There is no rose without a thorn. There is no passion without torment.Vanessa Clark, a second-year college student, has a visceral love of books and rain and...

Celebrate a decade of Critical Role with this anthology featuring the perspectives of ten characters who fought alongside – and against – Vox Machina, with a foreword by cast member Liam O’Brien. In these ten stories, see the legendary adventuring party anew through the eyes of some of the most memorable characters whose lives were...

From the author of bestselling Girl in Pieces, comes the story of a teenage girl on the brink, and the bumpy road back to recovery.Bella is at breaking point. Everyone in her life needs something from her. And there's only one thing that dulls the pain. Alcohol smooths the sharp edges...

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life.What are you looking for?This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining...

This propulsive debut psychological thriller set in small-town Georgia explores rage, redemption, and the many layers of toxic friendship, perfect for fans of Andrea Bartz and Rachel Hawkins. Marley Henderson is having the worst year of her life. First, a drunken mistake costs her everything, including her engagement and her...

Discover 18 thrilling festive stories of murder and mystery, embracing the rich tradition of Christmas crime fiction. From classic British period mysteries to spine-chilling whodunits, these original tales are crafted by bestselling and award-winning authors, including New York Times bestselling J.T. Ellison, USA Today bestseller Sam Carrington, and Sunday Times...

From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Porpoise and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a captivating collection of eight stories that reimagine ancient Greek myths in a modern context. Exploring themes of mortality, love, and morality, these tales delve into the complexities of the...

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a...

An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery.   From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column of the same name, Maktub,...

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple...   Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna - it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major...

SIX LIVES:Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.THE GUANO MERCHANT:In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes...

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo.Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she...

"You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that explore the shadowy corners of fate, mortality, and the unknown. A master of the short story for over half a century, King delivers tales that are as...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island,...

Abundance has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and was named one of the year’s top four debuts by The Telegraph. Douglas Stuart, the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, describes this debut novel as a “tense, yet tender portrait of a father and son trying to escape...

A masterful new collection from "the best short story writer in English" (Time), exploring power, ethics, and justice in a world both absurd and deeply human. MacArthur "Genius" and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with Liberation Day, his first short story collection in ten years. Wickedly funny, unsentimental, and razor-sharp, these...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and...

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life. In her first short story collection in twenty years, Kate Atkinson delivers an extraordinary blend of wit, imagination, and sharp social observation. Normal Rules Don't Apply transports readers into a multiverse...

'Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King'A jaw-dropping thriller... a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the best around' Gillian FlynnNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island,...

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion. For multiple generations of antiwar...

Little Clothbound irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.   Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive short story writers of the twentieth century....

1942 - Japanese bombs rain down in Darwin, Australia. Motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns to the road, seeking the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese...

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius.But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility...

A mind-bending YA science fiction anthology featuring ten top authors, perfect for fans of Black Mirror, Lauren James, and The Upper World by Femi Fadugba. What does the future hold? In this dazzling collection of speculative short stories, leading young-adult authors imagine worlds shaped by emerging technologies. When the modification industry...

Based on the Japanese myth of cats returning favours to humans who are kind to them, "The Full Moon Coffee Shop" is the name of a peculiar cake cafe that is run by talking cats, which has no fixed location and instead materialises unpredictably on the night of a full...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and a Times, Spectator and Observer Book of the Year 2021'In the first decade of this century, it was unthinkable that a gender-critical book could even be published by a prominent publishing house, let alone become a bestseller.' Louise Perry, New Statesman'Thank goodness for Helen Joyce.'...

This remarkable collection of rare and uncollected crime stories brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, many appearing in book form for the first time. Featuring lost works by legendary authors such as Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr, this anthology is a must-have for fans...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.   One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and...