Andrea Levy   It is 1948 in an England still shaken by war. At 21 Nevern Street, London, Queenie Bligh takes into her house lodgers who have recently arrived from...

Clare Chambers1957, south-east suburbs of London.Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of forty - living a limited existence...

Allen Hoffman   The first volume in Allen Hoffman's critically acclaimed series Small Worlds takes place in 1903 and introduces the wondrous rebbe of Krimsk—a small Hasidic settlement in Eastern...

Ross GilfillanFrom the clamour of P.T. Barnum's circus rushing through the dusty plains of Missouri to the bustle and noise of packed theatres in New York, The Snake-Oil Dickens Man...

Jane Gloriana Villanueva“Just the thing for a cold winter’s night between episodes.” —The Washington Post Book World“Fans of the show will undoubtedly enjoy the chance to read Jane’s book in...

Jane Gloriana Villanueva “Just the thing for a cold winter’s night between episodes.” —The Washington Post Book World“Fans of the show will undoubtedly enjoy the chance to read Jane’s book...

David Guterson Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed...

Lisa SeeIn nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match...

Pete HamillSet in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael...

Author: William Maxwell On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end....

Gene Wolfe Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on the world...

Javier CercasIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the...