90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Muriel Spark claimed The Driver's Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise - heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with violence on her mind - you will understand why.

It is still a man's world in the Indian town of Malgudi, where Savitri has submissively endured more than her fair share of humiliations in a long-standing marriage. When her husband insists on employing an elegant female in his company, however, Savitri realizes that he has gone too far.

In the shade of a banyan tree sits Margayva, self-styled adviser on the complex minor transactions which are an integral part of Indian life. But a scrape with officialdom in the form of an unplanned interview with the Co-operative Bank's secretary temporarily curtails a lucrative career.

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When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island's history that it has tried hard to forget.

Introduces DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young Ugandan student. Plunged into an underworld of illegal immigrant communities, they discover that the murdered girl's studies at a London College may have threatened to reveal things that some people will go to any lengths to keep secret...