Category: Fiction
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10� Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and ...Show more
Category: Fiction
'This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.' KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'Extraordinary and heart-wrenching, Miss Austen transported me from page one. A remarkable novel that is wholly original, ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: near fine
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed si ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A cult coming-of-age novel by the author of THE DOOR and KATALIN STREET. Magda Szabo's Abigail is the most widely read of all her novels in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after its original publication, it appears in English for the first time. Gina, the only child of a widowed general, lives a co ...Show more
Category: Fiction
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine) On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-Ameri ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Great Expectationsis a punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator -familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and crea ...Show more
Category: Fiction
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play-by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
Category: Fiction
Carrie White, dix-sept ans, solitaire, timide et pas vraiment jolie, vit un calvaire: elle est victime du fanatisme religieux de sa m re et des moqueries incessantes de ses camarades de classe. Sans compter ce don, cet trange pouvoir de d placer les objets distance, bien qu'elle le ma trise encore avec ...Show more
Category: Fiction
A Body of Water was first published thirty years ago. The writing of the book takes place over a year, and portrays a complete cycle in the writer’s life. It begins on her forty- sixth birthday, in a period of emotional inhibition and loneliness — her marriage has broken down, and she is liv ...Show more
Category: Fiction
Box Hill is a sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of the late 1970s. Beautifully written, intimate, and profoundly affecting, Adam Mars-Jones's first novel in almost a decade is the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel P ...Show more
