As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it's the perfect time for a dash of the supernatural...embrace the gloom with spine-chillers from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton and many more

Do you believe in ghosts?

Ghosts, spirits, spectres or spooks, we have always felt the presence of someone - or something - hovering in the darkest corners of our imaginations.

The great writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Rudya...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realized tale of our times.

'The absolute master' RICHARD OSMAN

'A helter-skelter of a read!' LISA JEWELL

'One of the all-time greats' GILLIAN FLYNN

'One of my favourites' JOHN GRISHAM

'At the top of his game' PETER JAMES

'Never lets you down' LEE CHILD

'Twisty, well characterised, gently satirical' JAKE KERRIDGE

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He is known as Wilde, the boy from the woods.

Discovered living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey, he has grown up knowing nothing of his parents, and even less about his own ide...

Introducing 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.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions ...