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Olive, Again
An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Dutch House
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, theWashington Post;O: The Oprah Magazine,Real Simple,Good Housekeeping, Vogue,Refinery29, andBuzzfeed
From the New York Timesbestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder,
€ 9,³⁰
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
The multi-million copy selling, international bestseller. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own.
Kim Jiyoung is a fem
€ 17,³⁰
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
The unforgettable and moving international number 1 bestseller'This is a novel of international significance. Courageous, provocative, haunting, it will open our eyes' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzIn the mid
€ 11,⁹⁵
Girl, Woman, Other
***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of th
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Death of Jesus
A masterful new novel completes an incomparable trilogy from J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and two-times winner of the Booker Prize
In The Childhood of Jesus, Simon found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together
€ 18,⁶⁵
Frenchman's Creek
A tale of love and adventure on the high seas from the internationally bestselling author of RebeccaThe Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But
€ 11,⁹⁵
The Catcher in the Rye Hardback
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in
€ 17,³⁰
Travels With My Aunt
Graham Greene proves a wonderful storyteller in this hilarious tale of the eccentricity of families and the pomposity of the middle class. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first
€ 13,³⁰
Our Man In Havana
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS'Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature' John Le CarreWormold is a
€ 13,³⁰
The Power and the Glory
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanit
€ 11,⁹⁵
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as `Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning ... A masterpiece'. One day, while browsing in a London
€ 10,⁶⁵
Lucky Jim
'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of B
€ 11,⁹⁵
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction a
€ 9,³⁰
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life. In the years following the First World War a new generation eme
€ 13,³⁰