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Set in small-town Bohemia between the wars, Cutting It Short centers on the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who loves food and prepares endless feasts.

The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history’s most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence.

Gladiator meets 1984 in this near-future thriller featuring timeslips, ancient magic, and a disturbingly plausible dystopian Britain...

“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

What means more, shared values or shared blood? Maxie's choice changes everything in this acclaimed companion to The Rock and the River. Bad things happen in the heat, they say.

The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers. It's the summer of 1981.

Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distin

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Harmony McLain and Whispering Mountain series—Sanford Colston left his hometown of Saints Roost to hire its school a new teacher, but instead found

Au printemps 1976, s'arrachant à sa retraite jamaïquaine, Cimballi a une idée : il ne s'agit plus de gagner quelques millions de dollars, mais d'accéder à la Fortune, la vraie.

Nora Okja Keller, the acclaimed author of Comfort Woman, tells the shocking story of a group of young people abandoned after the Korean War.

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery.

Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age.

Set in a small Mennonite community in Pennsylvania in 1896, this novel depicts the reaction of the "plain people" to various modern encroachments.

How wonderful, that you could cross the ocean and still find yourself looking at mothers and children walking the streets, peering into store windows, and catching buses to get home in time for din