General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

Collector, adventurer and artist, Vivant Denon was a youthful courtier at Versailles; he lived through the French Revolution, and galloped across Egypt with Bonaparte. A skilled survivor, he knew everyone...

Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio,...

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his...

This is a moving novel about the greatest love affair in Irish history. WB Yeats was one of Ireland's greatest poets; Maud Gonne was a beautiful, upper class Protestant English...

One writer, one editor, one hot summer... A romance for the books? Ciara Sheridan's father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish...

Wild Cat Falling is the story of an Aboriginal youth, a 'bodgie' of the early sixties who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town, falls into petty...

Like a country house murder story, this novel unveils as much about all the characters as it does about the woman who so mysteriously vanish into thin air on her...

"Perceptive and witty-like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California." -Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "It's this author's best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A controversial...

Dumplin' meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this heartfelt and funny contemporary romance inspired by Dollywood, about two boys who fall in love against the backdrop of a...

Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's -...

LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURE49th SHELF TOP 22 BOOKS OF 2022Is love real if the beloved isn't? Girl, Interrupted meets Rebecca in this taut tale of love and...

The international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. 'A glinting, big-hearted miracle of a book' Richard Glover'A...

Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. Naturally, she thinks that things can only improve from there. But she's...

*AS RECOMMENDED BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID "FOR SOMEONE WHO NEEDS A GOOD LAUGH" ON TIME'S INSTAGRAM* 'A darkly funny riot' The Times, Book of the Month A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD...

Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, fired by his conviction that only photographs could capture the world's true face. Then, in Africa, he witnesses the grotesque aftermath of a genocidal...

"A knockout of a novel...we predict [Infinite Country] will be viewed as one of 2021's best." --O, The Oprah Magazine'A poignant and beautifully written tale' - Financial TimesA Grazia 'Best...

Sally, an actress, has just returned from a long European tour to her house in Goatstown, and looks forward eagerly to seeing her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that...