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Charles Dickens

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised…

Douglas Adams

"HYSTERICAL!"--The Philadelphia InquirerThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five…

Mohsin Hamid

This powerful and original novel explores timely themes through a moving love story with a heart-stopping ending. It follows a young Pakistani man settled in New York who finds himself caught between…

Oscar Wilde

Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales by the celebrated playwright and poet include "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" and "A House of Pomegranates." Revised…

Carson McCullers

Kate Tempest

Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers…

Sandra Cisneros

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed…

Toni Morrison

George Saunders

Dennis Lehane

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of…

Jean Kwok

Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment.…

Paul Auster

I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water ...' So begins Mr Vertigo, the story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi…

Stephen King

In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly…

Christina Henry

Max Porter

An extraordinary debut, part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief. A pair of motherless children are visited by Crow, attracted to the grieving family and threatening to stay until…

Colm Toibin

It is Ireland in the 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scare. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving…

Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing moved to New York in her mid-thirties. This incredibly personal account details the daily loneliness she felt and how she began to explore this lonely city through art. 'Triumphant... a brave…

NoViolet Bulawayo

Darling and her friends live in a Zimbabwe shanty town called Paradise and dream of the luxuries of America, Dubai and Europe, where all the stars live. But when Darling does try to carve out a life…

Ralph Ellison

Jonathan Safran Foer

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan…

J. L. Carr

One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At…

Miranda July

The bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection in a new "The Canons" edition. Startling, tender and sexy by turns.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism…