New in Penguin Classics audio: The Fire Next Time, narrated by Jesse L. Martin.

James Baldwin's impassioned plea to end racial injustice in America galvanised a nation when it first emerged in 1963.

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More from Evelyn Waugh: his best-loved novel, Brideshead Revisited, and the brilliantly satirical tales, Scoop and A Handful of Dust, now available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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New in Penguin Classics audio: Another Country, narrated by Dion Graham.

Baldwin draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where characters push each other to the limit.

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Rich in irony and sharp observations on life, this new selection of short stories in the Penguin English Library celebrates E. M. Forster's unparalleled skill for storytelling, beginning with his masterful work of science fiction, The Machine Stops.

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Evelyn Waugh's writing masterfully reflects his expert wit and humour through satirical comedy. Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, and his Sword of Honour trilogy are now available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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New in Penguin Classics audio: the aching and impassioned love story that inspired Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins — If Beale Street Could Talk, narrated by Bahni Turpin.

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Angle of Repose follows Lyman Ward as he sets out to rediscover his grandmother's life story — a quest that reveals the dark shadows of his own life. Wallace Stegner's masterpiece is a fascinating glimpse into frontier-era America.

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One of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen’s semi-autobiographical novel, Quicksand, is a powerful portrayal of a biracial woman’s fractured existence — an evocative tale of the racial and gender restrictions that can mark one's life.

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In celebration of his centenary, Penguin Classics are publishing six of James Baldwin's works in audio. This April, listen to If Beale Street Could Talk, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and Notes of a Native Son — narrated by Bahni Turpin and more.

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With a beautiful new cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith, this new selection of the much-loved Father Brown stories invites new readers to discover one of the most unforgettable characters in literature. Now part of the Penguin English Library.

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‘Our ancestors used to say that death is nothing but a bridge between humans, a footbridge that brings them closer together on which they can meet halfway to whisper things they never dared talk about’

— Maryse Condé (1937 – 2024), Crossing the Mangrove

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The latest in Clothbound Classics: Nabokov's absurd and affecting story of Professor Pnin, who finds himself precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, he faces great hazards in this new world.

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Set between two iconic Penguin Modern Classic titles, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, here is the brilliant new cover of Karla's Choice by Nick Nick Harkaway.

Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse is a stunning anthology of the full complexity of Greek and Latin lyric poetry as we have never seen before.

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