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Siddhartha Hesse Hermann, Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual evolution, Siddhartha, includes a new introduction by bestselling author Paulo Coehlo in Penguin Classics.

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling

Find out why the rhino is so wrinkly and the cat so contrary. Kipling's weird and wacky stories are a must-read for everyone intrigued by the oddities of animals

Metamorphoses Ovid

Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

Maigret And The Old Lady Georges Simenon

When a charming elderly widow appeals to him for help, Inspector Maigret travels to a seaside village in Normandy - uncovering a lost fortune and some poisonous family politics.

Maigret Sets a Trap Georges Simenon

With Paris under siege following a series of murders, Maigret must hatch a cunning plan to lure the murderer out.

Dying for a Chat: Penguin Special Ranjana Srivastava

Winner of the 2013 Human Rights Literature Award Medical oncologist Ranjana Srivastava contends that our healthcare professionals are ill equipped for frank discussions with patients, leading to misdiagnosis, avoidable medical complications and even death.

Only the Animals Ceridwen Dovey

An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal worst and our creative best, Only the Animals asks us to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction.

Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali

The bestselling Turkish classic that continues to mesmerize readers worldwide.

Maigret's Dead Man Georges Simenon

A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals.

Lady Susan Jane Austen

Glittering with Austen's subversive young imagination, this wicked early novella features a devious, adulterous anti-heroine.

The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells

Spellbinding short stories of man-eating squid, magicians and monstrous machines, from the father of science fiction.

The Boy Who Could See Death Salley Vickers

Thus Bad Begins Javier Marias

A darkly smouldering tale of a young man entangled in his employer's unhappy marriage.

Marrow: Penguin Specials Yan Lianke

A chilling and relentless tale of family responsibility and a mother's sacrifice, Marrow is Yan Lianke at his best.

Short Stories In Spanish John King

Minimum of Two Tim Winton

The stories in Tim Winton's inspired Minimum of Two make the ordinary extraordinary.

Scission Tim Winton

Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare, jagged stories in which people struggle with change and disintegration.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne

The great underwater adventure story by the 'Father of Science Fiction'

Resurrection Leo Tolstoy

Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner – Katyusha, a young woman he seduced and abandoned years before.

Sketches By Boz Charles Dickens

The Blazing World And Other Writings Margaret Cavendish

Selected Tales Henry James, James Henry

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