Other novels and short stories

A powerful collection of 51 inspiring stories from young people around the world, curated by Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is more than a virtue it’s the driving force behind everything she does. She and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, founded Born This Way...

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two...

The Other Woman by debut author Sandie Jones, is a gripping psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Michelle Frances's The Girlfriend and B A Paris's Behind Closed Doors. When Emily meets Adam she knows he is the One. That together they can deal with anything that is thrown at them....

***THE FOLLOW UP TO THE AWARD-WINNING AND BESTSELLING STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT***Tom Daley, Oliver Sacks, the Jamaican Bobsled team, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Carlos Acosta... all dared to be different. This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely successful Stories for Boys Who Dare to be...

‘I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.’ When Helen flees from her alcoholic husband in order to protect her son she defies societal convention. Earning a living as an artist, she becomes the mysterious tenant of...

Imagine waking up in a cosy photo studio in the mountains, between this world and the next. A kind man hands you a hot drink and a stack of photographs, one from every day of your life. Then, you are asked to pick one photograph from each year to be...

The first official colouring book based on Frank Herbert's Dune - one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Visit Arrakis in a whole new way as you colour in your favourite characters and scenes from Frank Herbert's enduring and beloved classic novel. Dune tells the unforgettable story...

Take a journey into the fantastical worlds of the imagination in this breath-taking, stunningly illustrated gift book. From King Arthur's Round Table at Camelot to the majestic hall of slain heroes in Asgard, visit incredible lands from myth, legend and fairy tale in this beautiful gift book. Follow the story...

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War PolandPenguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a...

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.Penguin...

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In...

Four years on The New York Times bestseller listPublished for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm.Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the...

'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'   Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.   Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity...

The novelisation of Youth (La Giovinezza) - an original film by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel WeiszIn a luxury spa hotel in the Swiss Alps, octogenarian friends Fred Ballinger and Mick Boyle look back on their eventful and successful lives as composer and film director, surrounded...

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller from the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEESFrom the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland...

Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and ridiculous.As Kundera's readers would expect, Slowness is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis....

When Kate, a fledgling bookseller, decides to open a bookshop that celebrates the kinds of genre fiction she loves to read (popular and fun!), she's surprised to find that not everyone in the town is as excited as she is.Least excited of all? Sebastian, owner of the highbrow bookshop across...

Eyes on the prize, not the prince. After setting fire to her last summer job – literally – Imogen Rogers needs a change. So, when her best friend Divya, hooks her up with a gig at Fairytale Gardens to expose their dodgy dealings, she grabs the opportunity with both hands!Too...

From the author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care comes a new queer romcom in which a woman who refuses to date after her latest devastating breakup ends up fake-dating a woman with whom she had a horrible one-night stand while they both participate in a loca

In this action-packed romance, a hot-tempered college student is sucked into the criminal underworld after a chance encounter with the heir to a crime family. Ever since the tragic death of his parents, Porsche's life has been a balancing act between attending college and bartending to support his younger brother and...

The instant New York Times bestselling memoir that everyone is talking about'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat' The Washington PostMolly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’...

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his deathChosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New EuropeanFranz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What...

This beautifully illustrated collection of rediscovered stories from Sir Terry Pratchett, the creator of Discworld, offers fans a rare glimpse into his early work. Written under a pseudonym in the 1970s and 80s, these twenty short stories showcase Pratchett’s signature wit, satirical wisdom, and boundless imagination.   From Og, the caveman inventor...

'Intelligent, probing' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'Wild, singular... gripped me from the start' DOUGLAS STUART 'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A gorgeous, mysterious read' AISLING BEA 'Wild, elemental... I adored it' LOUISE KENNEDY *A most anticipated 2024 debut in BBC, Daily Mail, Stylist, New Statesman, Sunday Independent, Irish Times, Irish...

AN INSTANT THE TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR   If Richard Powers had written Arrival, an astonishing novel that is set to break out Martin MacInnes as one of the most important literary voices of his generation   'Monumental' Telegraph'Magnificent' Guardian'Transcendent' New ScientistLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an...

WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023 In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that...

The instant number one bestseller from the legendary Margaret Atwood   My heart is broken, Nell thinks. But in our family we don't say, 'My heart is broken.' We say, 'Are there any cookies?'In this dazzling collection of stories we meet beloved cats, George Orwell, a daughter whose mother may or may...

From the author of Boy Parts and Penance, Eliza Clark delivers her much-anticipated debut short story collection, brimming with visceral, speculative body horror and her signature dark humor. In this collection, a teenager longs for perfect skin, a scientist tends to fragile alien flora, and a young man takes the...

‘Sharp as a skewer about the devices and desires in many modern marriages. I loved it’ Amanda Craig‘Charming, very touching and very funny. Taut and full of surprises’ Tessa HadleyI shall explain about our marriage. We have a modern version of a long-distance relationship. We share a house, but live...