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By: Helen Castor
ISBN: 9780241419328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Marshall Goldsmith
ISBN: 9780241454374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Virgil
ISBN: 9780140444193
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1984
UK Publication Date: 26th January 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's "Eclogues" combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their phrasing, the poems in Virgil's first collection are also grounded in reality.
(Hardback)
By: Martin Daunton
ISBN: 9781846141713
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michael Pye
ISBN: 9780241963838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the world we know.
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By: John Romer
ISBN: 9780140455502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of funerary texts from a variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. It consists of spells, prayers and incantations, and contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. It offers insights into ancient Egypt.
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By: Joanna Miller
ISBN: 9780241737668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Harding
ISBN: 9780241658499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Andy Orchard
ISBN: 9780140435856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Collects poems that: are compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, are based on sources dating back centuries earlier, and tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era - the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Volsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun.
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By: Sir Ken Robinson
ISBN: 9780141045252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. This book identifies a crisis in education and business: whether it's a child bored in class, a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving.
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By: Bernardine Evaristo
ISBN: 9780140297812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Through bustling, hustling city, its slum tenements and sumptuous villas, this book follows Zuleika the daughter of Sudanese immigrants. Married to a fat, rich absent Roman, she is stranded in luxurious neglect, until, one day, Septimus Severus, Emperor himself, comes to town, bringing with him not just love - but danger...
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By: Bernardine Evaristo
ISBN: 9780241989845
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hans Christian Andersen
ISBN: 9780241746851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Clive Cussler
ISBN: 9781405923781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780141191829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A notice in "The Times" addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer, escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy.
(Hardback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780241619742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780241338971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Todd Rose
ISBN: 9780141980034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Francis Fukuyama
ISBN: 9780241991039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Lydia Davis
ISBN: 9780241205457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, the author seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction.
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By: Karina Antram
ISBN: 9781405954709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Robert Tombs
ISBN: 9781802064230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Silva
ISBN: 9780141038988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings - stolen by Nazis in the war - is missing.
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By: John Dillon
ISBN: 9780140445206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1991
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This massive work of synthesis is one of the classics of Western mysticism. Plotinus was the main expositor of neo-platonism, the last great movement of classical Greek philosophy. Plotinus's work blends Plato, Aristotle and earlier Greek philosophy into a new religious formulation.
