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By: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9780140439076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At first the interruption to the boredom of Sherlock Holmes seems to have little to do with crime. A governess, whose father vanished ten years ago and who has been receiving money each year, now needs an escort to meet her unknown benefactor. But before the night is over, murder has occurred.
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By: Nate Silver
ISBN: 9780141975658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reveals how we can all develop better foresight in an uncertain world. From the stock market to the poker table, from earthquakes to the economy, the author takes us on an enthralling insider's tour of the high-stakes world of forecasting, showing how we can use information in a smarter way amid a noise of data - and make predictions in our lives.
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By: Carolyne Faulkner
ISBN: 9780241307557
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Pat Barker
ISBN: 9780241983201
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kevin Birmingham
ISBN: 9780141981710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Juvenal
ISBN: 9780140447040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1998
UK Publication Date: 27th August 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society. This work draws forth a world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. It portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - and the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves.
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By: Leonora Carrington
ISBN: 9780241339169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Peter Biskind
ISBN: 9780241373873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN: 9780141197623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They begin a secret affair, trying to avoid the cruelty of the other villagers, until one day Jacob's fortunes unexpectedly change.
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By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780141441061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep- like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth.
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By: Arthur Koestler
ISBN: 9780141394534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dissects the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. The author shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
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By: Christopher Clark
ISBN: 9780141027821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought...
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By: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9780140433258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1991
UK Publication Date: 31st January 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor entrenched in the "Great House" at Allington. His sister-in-law lives at the adjacent "Small House" with her two daughters and the action centres on the relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements of the girls.
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By: Javier Castillo
ISBN: 9781405960885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780241258569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Other translations published as: Dirty snow.
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By: Clive Cussler
ISBN: 9781405919036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the clear blue waters of the Solomon Islands the ruins of an ancient city have lain undisturbed for hundreds of years - until now. Guarded by an ancient curse Legend - even recent history - tells of a terrible fate befalling anyone foolish enough to venture near. Visitors do not return alive. Or something more deadly
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By: Nguyen Du
ISBN: 9780241360668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Seth Godin
ISBN: 9780241655542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9780241338162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Coralie Bickford-Smith
ISBN: 9780141989341
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780141192574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Part of the "Clothbound Classics" series, this title collects sonnets of Shakespeare's that deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. It also includes the sonnet "A Lover's Complaint", in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
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By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN: 9780140445039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1989
UK Publication Date: 30th March 1989
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte. Although he realises that she is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair.
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By: Arthur Kleinman
ISBN: 9780141992419
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780140433876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes "The Portrait of Mr W H", Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from "Intentions" (1891): "The Decay of Lying", "Pen, Pencil, Poison", and "The Critic as Artist". This volume presents Wilde as a deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and an eloquent thinker about society and art.
