Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents....

The Girls\" Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace....

Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics \"The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the ...

The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics \\\"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation....

\"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!\" The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the brilliant analytical mind of Sherlock Holmes....

\"Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same . . .\" The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be ignored and soon the pair find themselves investigating the curious case of an aged professor whose sudden strange alteration in behaviour terrifies everyone from his daughter and her fiance to the family dog....

Cathy and her brother, Rob, don\"t know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Alone in their grandfather\"s decaying country house, they roam the wild grounds freely with minds attuned to the rural wilderness. Lost in their own private world, they seek and find new lines to cross....

\"Do not open - destroy.\" The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath\"s hand, but Glyn ignores his wife\"s instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man....

\"The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .\" In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray\"s boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee - fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale\"s generous mercy....

\"Are we making a bomb?\" \"This is a trust exercise, like in drama,\" she says. \"Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?\" Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher....

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor\"s surgery. \"I need to have an abortion\", she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul....

A stunning early novel by the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home, Deborah Levy. Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K....

The May of Teck Club \"exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years\". Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown....

\"My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the cafe of the town\"s only cinema . . .\" One hot summer a stranger arrives at the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family. Intriguing, beguiling, arresting, Amber brings love, joy, pain and not a little upheaval, throwing the carefully ordered world of the Smarts into the air....

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster\"s A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced \"Anglo-Indian\" community....