Other Voices, Other Rooms

Karan Mahajan

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN THE WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, LIT HUB, THE MILLIONS, CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS In a sprawling complex in Delhi, the sons and daughters of SP Chopra, one of India's political architects, live together vying for influence in a family shaped by the great man's legacy. Sachin Chopra leaves for America, with his bride Gita following not long afte...

Jaclyn Moriarty

Three strangers' lives converge in the waiting room of Sydney's Time Travel Agency - a nondescript shopfront that promises impossible things... It's a crisp, wintry Thursday when Anna is hit by a car. In the wake of this chance encounter - possibly lightly concussed, possibly thinking clearly for the first time in a long time - she quits her miserable job and agrees to a job at...

Amy Abdelnoor

'A haunting, lyrical novel that seems almost to dissolve time. Everyone should read it' LOUISE KENNEDY 'Compassionate and beautifully observed' GUY GUNARATNE 'Cleverly conceived and brilliantly engaging . . . a powerful novel. Read this' PRISCILLA MORRIS 'Ambitious and complex but handled with impressive ease' ROSE TREMAIN 'A brave book ... It rings with truth' ELIZABETH LAIRD ...

James Meek

An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People's Act of Love Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police. He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral - and a m...

Kristin Hannah

One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingAnnie Colwater's only child has just left home for school in England. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Left alone in the beautiful California house which was once a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that the year...

Douglas Stuart

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed' - Colm Tóibín'To r...

Truman Capote

Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whisky to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before d...

Truman Capote

'Summer Crossing' is the story of a 17-year-old girl who has been left in New York while her parents spend the summer in Europe. It is a coming-of-age story, the heroine of which is very much a proto-Holly Golightly from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. ...

Truman Capote

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits' includi...

Truman Capote

Truman Capote

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language le...

Truman Capote

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. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a s...