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A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies ...
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a ...
The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback
Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he ...
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of ...
A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon
A writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a ...
Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers
Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift- a ...
The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires
A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he ...
Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one ...
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human ...
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and ...
An epic allegorical novel chronicling the fortunes of two families as they try to escape the sins of their forbears, the Penguin Modern Classics edition ...
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale of love and loneliness, now widely available in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time
Antoine de Saint-Exupery first ...
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every ...