'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' This manga adaptation of Albert Camus' classic existential novel provides a new visual dimension to the inner life of the tortured Meursault. More on the book: penguin.co.uk/books/461625/t…

The story continues: Volume II of ‘Some Men In London’ is published on 26 September. Penguin Classics UK Pre-order penguin.co.uk/books/460748/s…

We LOVED Some Men In London Vol 1 - Queer Life 1945-1959 and are so looking forward to the next volume covering 1960-67 (published 26th Sept). Join us at the British Library on 1st Oct when Peter Parker will be in conversation with Neil Bartlett. Tkts bit.ly/46WQhlm

Set in the late twenty-first century, a deadly pandemic leaves a lone survivor and sculpts a world where nature reigns mightily over humans. Mary Shelley's The Last Man is an early work of climate fiction and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Out today:

Abel and Janice, both young and deaf, begin married life with high hopes. But navigating the world of the hearing is harder than they thought. In This Sign, a rare and compassionate portrait of the lives of deaf people, is out tomorrow: penguin.co.uk/books/459953/i…

In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Over four seasons, the tangled skein of three peasants' lives unravels. Read The Peasants, an epic tale from Wladyslaw Reymont, the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature: penguin.co.uk/books/444052/t…

This month marks ESEA Heritage Month, an annual celebration of the beauty, history and significance of East and South East Asian countries and cultures. #ESEAHM2024 Here are some of our top reads:

'The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules' Guardian Shirley Jackson's iconic work of gothic horror blurs the lines between reality and imagination, between dream and nightmare. Out this month in Clothbound Classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches and peg legs and into the no-man’s-land of piracy, out now: penguin.co.uk/books/462189/t…

In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows him home, and over one heady night of wine and cigarettes, recounts to him the devastating story of her life...   First published in 1947, Nothing Grows by