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A heartbreaking novel of family secrets from one of the masters of modern fiction, The Rain Before it Falls is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics Deeply moving and compelling, The Ra

In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, a family celebrate VE Day in 1945. With the joy of such an occasion there also come larger national questions about the nature of the horrific war the country has just been through. Following this fam

The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter is trying to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists,

Rachel i jej przyjaciółka Alison, lat 10, są zaintrygowane domem numer 11 i jego właścicielką nazywaną Szaloną Kobietą Ptasznikiem, szczególnie od czasu, gdy zauważyły w oknie jego piwnicy dziwną sylwetkę… Val Doubleday, matka Alison, po je

This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comed

«Il y a combien de temps que j’ai joué ces accords? Combien de temps qu’elle est apparue dans le bar, elle, qu’elle s’est approchée du piano, pendant que j’improvisais dans la pénombre de la salle, bien apres que les buveurs les plus endurc