Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home (Penguin Science Fiction)

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women’s Prize-winning author of How to be bothand the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet ‘Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A beguiling page-turner… To read The Accidental is to be excited from first to last’ Independent ‘Joyous’ The Times […]

Following one woman’s journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of

The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes – until one of its inhabitants, ‘A. Square’, has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality. ‘At once a […]

Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee and black cigarettes. In the bars and cafés of Rosario, Argentina, he recounts