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By: Penelope Lively

ISBN: 9780140061185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1982
UK Publication Date: 26th August 1982
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and interested - Clare Paling discovers that small communities offer interesting sideshows of adultery, gossip and carefully adhered to pecking orders.


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By: Orlando Figes

ISBN: 9780241955901
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchanged thousands of secret letters as Lev battled to survive in Stalin's camps. This book tells the story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag.


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By: Narayana

ISBN: 9780140455588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Treating pleasure as an art, "Kama Sutra" is a handbook covering various aspects of love and relationships. This title presents a modern translation of "Kama Sutra" that conveys the original flavour and feel of this elegant, intimate and hugely enjoyable work; a masterpiece of pithy description and a wry account of human desires and foibles.


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By: Patrick Hennessey

ISBN: 9780241951279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When the author returned home from Afghanistan, he left behind him surreal intensity and exhilaration of battle. He also left behind lasting bonds of friendship formed with his Afghan comrades Qiam, Syed and Majhib. This title tells of their first meetings, mutual suspicion and incomprehension, and how this eventually turned into brotherhood.


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By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

ISBN: 9780241962817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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My friend, Fionn, was being held hostage in, I don't know, Unganga Nanga, and the Government was refusing to send in a team of marines to extract him. Suddenly, I realized what I had to do - go and get Fionn back. Except what I didn't realize was that Unganga Nanga was no country for old tens.


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By: Gary Bloom

ISBN: 9780241451311
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Adam Mars-Jones

ISBN: 9781846148774
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book about families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity.


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By: Stephen Denny

ISBN: 9780241953686
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Unveils practical strategies for overtaking larger competitors in any market, looking at companies like that started out small but quickly dominated by using their opponents' size to their advantage. Using a range of case studies, this title explains how, by taking an approach, you can carve out a larger chunk of any marketplace.


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By: Sam Bradbury

ISBN: 9780241954317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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There is no poetry or romance in war, it is brutal and ugly and terrifying and it turns men into animals - shrieking, screaming and running while destroying all in their path. It is survival' Visari, the vicious Helghast dictator, is vanquished, lying dead at the feet of ISA forces soldiers Sev and Rico. Yet the battle is far from over.


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By: Robert Graves

ISBN: 9780141197654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: H. G. Wells

ISBN: 9780141441108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the inheritor of his fortune.


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By: Tom Bullough

ISBN: 9780670920938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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1867, Ryazan, a Russian city in winter. Ten-year-old Konstantin, deafened by scarlet fever, dreams of flight - escaping to Moscow, fleeing to the silent stars. And his daring visions, pregnant with humanity's future, will take him further than anyone could believe.


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By: Natsume Soseki

ISBN: 9780143105190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features a portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. This book is a haikuesque novel infused with the author's musings on art and nature.


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By: John Rutherford

ISBN: 9780140443462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1984
UK Publication Date: 26th January 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in 1885, this novel is set in a shabby provincial Spanish town and explores an intelligent and sensitive woman's unsuccessful quest for fulfilment through marriage, adultery and religion.


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By: Helen Gordon

ISBN: 9780241954423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Alice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past.


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By: Doug Naylor

ISBN: 9780140143881
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1995
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Somewhere along the line he had made a mistake. Dave Lister - the LAST HUMAN. The future of the species is in the hands of one man. And all he has to help him are his wits, his cunning, and a two-page section from a mail-order catalogue.


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By: John Carter

ISBN: 9781405915113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Angela Derby, the woman behind the discovery, enlists the help of ex-army Captain, Jack Shepherd and together they decipher the runes and begin a journey across the world. But they are not the only ones seeking the treasure and their quest soon becomes a race to stay alive.


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By: Jilliane Hoffman

ISBN: 9780718193720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida's Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend for the torture and murder of eleven young women. Now three cops crucial to Bantling's conviction have been brutally slain. CJ knew them all - and the shocking secret they took to their graves. But clear that somebody else also knows the truth.


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By: Nezami Ganjavi

ISBN: 9780143133995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th July 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Walt Whitman

ISBN: 9780140421996
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1981
UK Publication Date: 25th June 1981
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features the poem of the author.


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By: David Lynn Golemon

ISBN: 9781405911955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Buried for centuries, the Vatican's darkest secret is about to be discovered. And that attracts the attention of the Event Group, a top secret government organisation made up of soldiers, scientists and historians, dedicated to uncovering the truth behind history's greatest myths.


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By: David Vann

ISBN: 9780141043784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, commits suicide on the deck of his boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood. Finally, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.


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By: John Verdon

ISBN: 9780141048727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A decade ago a series of roadside shootings made The Good Shepherd killer headline news. But then the killings stopped, and nobody could say for sure why. Finding himself drawn back into the case, Gurney soon discovers new facts the original investigation missed and literally stakes his life on finding The Good Shepherd.


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By: Al Murray

ISBN: 9781405922104
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author sets out his party's vision for the country, and explains how politics actually works. He presents his guide to British politics and a vision for a Greater Britain.

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