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Two soldiers travel across Italy at the height of summer, passing through Genoa, Rome and Naples.

Part coming-of-age novel, part searing examination of a community finding itself, Small Ceremonies is a tantalizing and heartbreaking debut.

Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Finalist • Globe and Mail Top 100 Best Books of 2024 • One of Indigo's Most Anticipated Canadian Books • One of the CBC's Canadian Fiction Books to Read

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. Finalist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction.

Henry Green considered *Concluding* the finest of all his books. *Concluding*—set in a single summer day—has at its heart old Mr.

Collected here in one volume is James T.

Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it's not too late to live it.

The Children of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor. Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent.

Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Fireflies and The Chip-Chip Gatherers.

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melancholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by

Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, this gripping novel tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle that leads to psychological self-entrapment, seduction, and murde

A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke—one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works. On a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee.

Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home.

Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday.