Love in the Time of Cholera

Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance……

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. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a […]

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian’s magnificent family home…..

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka’s hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. ‘Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into […]