Hamish Hamilton Tomas Nevinson Marias Javier

At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance • Now she is in Athens, watching as another young woman, a stranger but uncannily familiar - almost her double - purchases a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history • So begins a journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who bought the dancing horses • A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, August Blue uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story, find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew

If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread • Elodie is the baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and underestimated by her neighbours, she burns with the secret desire to be extraordinary. One day a charismatic new couple appear in town - the ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet - and Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home, eavesdropping on their coded conversations, longing to be part of their world • Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening. Six horses are found dead in a sun-drenched field, laid out neatly on the ground like an offering

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin • Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland which he shared with a host of visitors, both animal and human, and wrote about - as he wrote about all natural life - with rare attention, intimacy, precision and poetry • Roger Deakin was unique, and so too is this joyful work of creative biography, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours

For better or worse. For richer or poorer. Till death us do part • We've always done it, we're still doing it. Straight, queer, coupled or uncoupled, none of us live outside the cultural and psychological influence of marriage and all of us are written into its story. But why this highly contested and ancient practice has remained relevant to so many is by no means certain. Is it an act of love, a leap of faith, a holy bond, a contractual commitment, a bid for security, a framework for family, a hedge against being alone? Or could its traditional cover conceal something a bit more radical? Why do we do it at all? • Drawing on philosophy, film, fiction, comedy, psychoanalysis, music and poetry, Devorah Baum considers the marriage plot. What are we really talking about when we talk about marriage? And what are we really doing when we say, 'I do'? • Entertaining, illuminating, candid and consoling, On Marriage is a critique and a celebration of the many contradictions of matrimony - its sorrows as well as its joys - and an enquiry into its effects on us all

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth cenury and author of modern classic novel Rabbit, Run • Updike had a boundless capacity for curiosity and delight. This collection of poems from across his career displays his extraordinary range in form and subject: from metaphysical epigrams, and lyrical odes to blank-verse sonnets, on topics from Roman busts to Lucian Freud to postage stamps • These poems are nimble and inventive, exploring art, science, popular culture, foreign travel, erotic love, growth, decay and rebirth. Collected in chronological order, from precocious undergraduate efforts to frequently anthologized classics, this is an autobiography in verse for every Updike fan and a celebration of twentieth century American life

Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacy • For fans of Andre Aciman, Deborah Levy and the Penguin European Writers series • Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically • The novel opens years later, when Hugo, long estranged from Thora and August, is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days come flooding back • Modern yet timeless, poignant and euphoric, The Trio is a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become, and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close

"Мошенничество" - роман известной писательницы Зейди Смит, - это калейдоскопическое произведение исторической фантастики, посвященного судебному разбирательству, разделившему Викторианскую Англию. Роман о том, кто заслуживает того, чтобы рассказать свою историю, и о том, кто заслуживает того, чтобы ему поверили • 1873 год. Миссис Элиза Туше - шотландская экономка и двоюродная сестра когда-то знаменитого романиста, Уильяма Эйнсворта, с которым она прожила тридцать лет • Миссис Туше - женщина со множеством интересов: литература, правосудие, аболиционизм, классовая борьба, ее двоюродный брат и его жена, эта жизнь и следующая. Но она настроена скептически. Она подозревает своего кузена в отсутствии таланта; его преуспевающего друга, мистера Чарльза Диккенса, в том, что он хулиган и моралист; а Англию - в том, что она страна лицемерия, в которой все не совсем то, чем кажется

Энтони Магуайр рос дебоширом. Его младший брат Шон должен был стать другим. Их мать ожидала, что он уедет и никогда не вернётся. Но он вернулся. Приехав обратно домой после окончания университета, он обнаруживает, что Энтони пьёт хуже, чем когда-либо. Тем временем рабочих мест в Белфасте не осталось, диплом Шона не стоит бумаги, на которой напечатан, и никто не обращает на него внимания. Однажды ночью на вечеринке он теряет над собой контроль и нападает на незнакомца, после чего всё погружается в хаос • В дебютном романе, основанном на собственном опыте, Майкл Маги исследует явления, из-за которых страдают молодые люди из рабочего класса. «Close to Home», настоящий подарок ценителям качественной современной литературы, рассказывает захватывающую и эмоциональную историю, которая заставит читателя пережить целый спектр чувств и эмоций

Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in Penguin Modern Classics • 'We lose everything because everything remains except us', says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marias recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories and a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea • The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done', in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory

Виктор, писатель-призрак, как раз собирается завести роман с Мартой, замужней женщиной, когда - в спальне, полураздетая - она падает замертво в его объятия. Он впадает в панику и ускользает. Но семья Марты слишком хорошо осведомлена о том, что она была не одна, когда умерла, и Дин, овдовевший муж, полон решимости выяснить, кто делил с ней постель в ту ночь. Виктор, привыкший к притворству, понимает, что не может вечно жить в тени • Книга на английском языке • Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013 • Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms

A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour • A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom ... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories. Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour, Javier Marias' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity