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This debut novel shines a light on the dark subject of infanticide when a successful female criminal defense lawyer is ordered to defend a seventeen-year-old minister’s daughter charged with murder...

Humorous, heartfelt, and endearing, My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor is the story of a young man (as empty as the Big Mac container itself) facing...

New to Penguin Modern Classics: a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three,...

A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of...

The collection of realist short stories that brought James Joyce's vision of Dublin to the world with a new introduction by Joycean scholar Anne Fogarty 'Joyce's early short stories remain undimmed...

Marian's the brightest star in the 8 new popular Penguin Picks June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday . . . And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a...

A surreal work of science fiction from one of Japan's most brilliant novelists In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'. While...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone -...

A short, claustrophobic, shattering novel about a woman unable to act to save a teenager in her care, by the mistress of sustained dread, Marlen Haushofer. Claustrophobic and shattering, this is the...

The epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his best novel since BIRDSONG The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth...

A quirky and compassionate tale of a woman's solitary wanderings through 1960s Paris, with an introduction by Deborah Levy The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is an existential feminist classic about an...

Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out student at NYU. Between exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it's normal to feel overwhelmed. It doesn't help that she's always...

VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager...

'Maybe we love people because they won't let us know them.' A summer's evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, showers or a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can...

Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and...

A claustrophobic novel - like a pot boiling over - Piglet charts the gap between how people see themselves and want to be seen. Discover a deliciously dark and piercing story of food and secrets, a...

A blackly comic, bittersweet satirical novel about Ukraine, a writer and a pet penguin All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only...

This cult classic is the ultimate work of sustained dread - the story of a woman trapped alone in the forest. A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn...

Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus...

A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fiction When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his...

New to Modern Classics, published alongside The Ballad of Peckham Rye Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything...

Available in English for the first time, The Chandelier is one of Lispector's most radical books and a key part of what made her a Brazilian legend 'She found the best clay that one could desire:...

Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister – a poignant and darkly funny...

The finest book yet from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest: an ageing man with an unreliable mind plans the final days before he flies to Switzerland 'Brilliant, exceptional... it...

A prizewinning psychological horror from Korea - after a devastating car crash, a man wakes to find himself paralysed and under the control of his vengeful mother-in-law. Fall into the chilling and...

A pitch perfect encapsulation of one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood The new novel from the bestselling author of The...

A woman is unnerved when a sinister package arrives in the post - containing her old diary entries. Strange and gripping, this is the unmistakable work of Marlen Haushofer, mistress of sustained...

Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll love them all. . . Grace has what one might call a 'full and interesting life' which is code for not married and has no...

The new novel from Women's Prize-shortlisted, Costa Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground - an addictively propulsive, richly nuanced and haunting story of horrors without and within 1987: After...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative...

An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in...

i had been a male model since i moved to london and initially i was making lots of money and then suddenly i wasn't making any. Xander is ageing out. A former high school jock turned model, he's...

'The MOST BUZZED-ABOUT, ADDICTIVE read' STYLIST An edgy, emotionally confronting, contemporary novel of friendship, sex, desire, motherhood and feminism. THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY...

The spellbinding debut novel that launched the career of one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century Elisa - orphaned as a child, raised by a 'fallen woman', fed by fairy tales -...

A spine-tingling novel of twisted mother-daughter relationships, sexuality, class, rampant Victorian colonialism and bodily freedoms. 'A gruesome, provocative, stylish fairytale' Kaliane Bradley,...

An immersive, epic tale of three generations of women over two continents, caught between forging their own paths and the family secrets that keep holding them back It is late September in 2001 and...

A haunting novel exploring a mother's fierce love for her disabled son as she grapples with her own mental health, by the author of the feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd Street For...

'This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind' First published...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A...

An epic, transformative novel following a young woman as she navigates a series of romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and...

An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL It's Jake's birthday. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories' Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's...

The residents of Mariner’s Cove are changing… In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people of this quaint suburban neighborhood. Random, everyday...

A stunning lyrical novel from the Number one bestselling author Donal Ryan; with the intimacy of Claire Keegan's Small Things like These or Louise Kennedy's Trespasses. A standalone novel that can...

A young woman inherits a Tokyo pawn shop where you can sell your deepest regrets, sparking a dream-like and magical adventure: Before the Coffee Gets Cold meets Studio Ghibli. On a backstreet in...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday. Travelling to the Costa...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive anti-war novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is a rite of passage. Set in the...

'One of the finest, most realistic, most compulsive and stylistically impressive crime thrillers of the year' Matthew Condon, The Australian Out on parole after serving over eight years in prison,...