Other novels and short stories

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life.What are you looking for?This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining...

From hilarious bestselling author, Katie Kirby, comes a brand-new Lottie Brooks story. This time it's CHRISTMAS!!! Dear Santa,For Christmas this year, I would like:Two hundred KitKat chunkies (full-size not multipack). Baby Bella to stop shouting 'BUM' in public spaces. A new brother who doesn't fart on me and call it...

“All art,” Oscar Wilde once announced, “is quite useless.” Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art – useless, illuminating, artificial, uplifting, radical, gorgeous, boring, sublime – and his most brilliant aphorisms on the creative life. Whether lamenting the crass urge to hold art...

‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’ DOLLY ALDERTON What do you do when a girlfriend’s 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s 30th? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is sleeping with someone after 2...

In this action-packed romance, a hot-tempered college student is sucked into the criminal underworld after a chance encounter with the heir to a crime family. Ever since the tragic death of his parents, Porsche's life has been a balancing act between attending college and bartending to support his younger brother and...

This second volume of the bestselling Teach Yourself Graded Readers series features 8 compelling new stories in a variety of genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller, so you'll have fun reading, while learning a wide range of new vocabulary and rapidly improving your Spanish comprehension!   Short Stories...

From the author of bestselling Girl in Pieces, comes the story of a teenage girl on the brink, and the bumpy road back to recovery.Bella is at breaking point. Everyone in her life needs something from her. And there's only one thing that dulls the pain. Alcohol smooths the sharp edges...

The magical legend of the Golem, long associated with Prague in the reign of Rudolf II, acquires yet another dimension in a new treatment by writer Martin Vopěnka and illustrator Renáta Fučíková. In this book, Kabbalah meets astronomy and alchemy, with a message of peace for the present day.

"You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that explore the shadowy corners of fate, mortality, and the unknown. A master of the short story for over half a century, King delivers tales that are as...

This propulsive debut psychological thriller set in small-town Georgia explores rage, redemption, and the many layers of toxic friendship, perfect for fans of Andrea Bartz and Rachel Hawkins. Marley Henderson is having the worst year of her life. First, a drunken mistake costs her everything, including her engagement and her...

Discover 18 thrilling festive stories of murder and mystery, embracing the rich tradition of Christmas crime fiction. From classic British period mysteries to spine-chilling whodunits, these original tales are crafted by bestselling and award-winning authors, including New York Times bestselling J.T. Ellison, USA Today bestseller Sam Carrington, and Sunday Times...

From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Porpoise and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a captivating collection of eight stories that reimagine ancient Greek myths in a modern context. Exploring themes of mortality, love, and morality, these tales delve into the complexities of the...

Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's a DORKable world and the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide!Nikki is spending a week at North Hampton Hills as part of the school transfer programme. The good news is that NHH is super-cool and preppy. The bad...

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a...

An uplifting and inspiring novel about becoming the person you were always meant to be, from the author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman. When reality comes calling, do you face it . . . or keep running? Danny is the definition...

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple...   Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna - it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major...

The instant number one bestseller from the legendary Margaret Atwood   My heart is broken, Nell thinks. But in our family we don't say, 'My heart is broken.' We say, 'Are there any cookies?'In this dazzling collection of stories we meet beloved cats, George Orwell, a daughter whose mother may or may...

From the author of Boy Parts and Penance, Eliza Clark delivers her much-anticipated debut short story collection, brimming with visceral, speculative body horror and her signature dark humor. In this collection, a teenager longs for perfect skin, a scientist tends to fragile alien flora, and a young man takes the...

SIX LIVES:Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.THE GUANO MERCHANT:In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes...

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo.Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she...

Abundance has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and was named one of the year’s top four debuts by The Telegraph. Douglas Stuart, the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, describes this debut novel as a “tense, yet tender portrait of a father and son trying to escape...

Buon Natale -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside, steaming tureens, plates piled high with pasta, High Mass, dashed hopes, golden crucifixes, flowing wine, shimmering gifts and plenty of style. In this collection, classic...

As the evenings draw in – a time of reckoning, rest and restoration – settle in with this new seasonal collection. Nature Tales for Winter Nights is a treasure trove of tales from across the natural world that puts winter – rural, wild and urban – under the microscope and...

A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life. In her first short story collection in twenty years, Kate Atkinson delivers an extraordinary blend of wit, imagination, and sharp social observation. Normal Rules Don't Apply transports readers into a multiverse...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.   One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and...

'Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King'A jaw-dropping thriller... a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the best around' Gillian FlynnNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale...

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. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island,...

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion. For multiple generations of antiwar...

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Irish. A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Irish for Beginners has been written especially for students from high-beginner to low-intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and...