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By: Nell Leyshon

ISBN: 9780241971451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob, and proves a fast learner: not much more than a child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again.


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By: Edward Gibbon

ISBN: 9780140432176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1984
UK Publication Date: 29th March 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield. Recounting Gibbon's sickly childhood in London, he distils his genius for history into a remarkable gift for autobiography.


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By: Klaus Mann

ISBN: 9780140189186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1995
UK Publication Date: 7th December 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in Faust proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Goring.


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By: Professor David Priestland

ISBN: 9780241955215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way This title argues for the predominance in any society of one of three broad value systems - that of the merchant; the soldier; and the sage.


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By: Mary Burton

ISBN: 9780241953969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When bleached human bones are identified as belonging to a former patient of Dr James Dixon, Detective Malcolm Kier suspects the worst. Dixon was recently acquitted of attempted murder, thanks to defense attorney Angie Carlson. But as the body count rises, Kier is convinced that Angie is the target of a brutal, psychopath.


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By: Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani

ISBN: 9780143136613
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Matt Cooper

ISBN: 9780241315637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Francois Voltaire

ISBN: 9780140446869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A comprehensive selection of Voltaire's very brief contes and melanges: tiny feats of narrative compression, each often no more than a few pages long. Their genre is something between a tale and a polemic - more gestures than stories.


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By: Karen Chance

ISBN: 9780241956014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dorina Basarab is a dhampir, the daughter of a vampire and a human woman. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs are born barking mad and live very short, very violent lives. So for five hundred years, Dory has been fighting to maintain her sanity by unleashing her homicidal tendencies on those demons and vampires who deserve killing.


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By: Spike Milligan

ISBN: 9780140110821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1989
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 1989
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Milligan's War, a one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, was published to celebrate his seventieth birthday. His war memoirs include Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall and Goodbye, Soldier.


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By: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780241950531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. When she is later magicked into his trailer and Millroy promised to train her as his assistant, Jilly feels safe for the first time her her short life. But Millroy is more than a mere stage-show magician.


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By: George Moses Horton

ISBN: 9780143137269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kate Eastham

ISBN: 9781405935890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: David Roessel

ISBN: 9780141188423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of thirteen one-act dramas, which features isolated figures struggling against a cruel world, who refuse to lose sight of their dreams.


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By: Jean-Paul Sartre

ISBN: 9780140189216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2000
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, this volume brings together a collection of Sartrean gems.


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By: Linda Finlay

ISBN: 9781405928755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Spike Milligan

ISBN: 9780140045031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1978
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron - up there in Valhalla, Monty's laughing fit to burst.


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By: Rob Thurman

ISBN: 9780241956649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Cal and his half-brother Niko's lives are settling back to normal after stopping their bloodthirsty relatives from bringing about the apocalypse. They've found a new apartment and employment by starting an investigative agency. Their latest job is undercover work for the Kin - New York's werewolf mafia - to sniff out proof of a set-up by a rival.


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By: Justin Quinn

ISBN: 9780241964064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Declan and Sinead Boyle are pillars of society - born into prosperous families, educated at Dublin's finest schools, dwellers in a fine house in a leafy suburb. So why are they in so much trouble Declan wants to serve his country - but he also wants to serve his own ambition.


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By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ISBN: 9780141441467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.


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By: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780241969373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns on him.


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By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

ISBN: 9781844881277
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is broke and out of love. His wife has gone to America, taking his daughter with him; his mother has become a celebrity chef on daytime television, with a particular skill for handling phallic ingredients; and his father continues to languish in Mountjoy Jail.


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By: Claire Tomalin

ISBN: 9780241963296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover to Prince William, third son of George III. Unmarried, the pair lived in a villa on the Thames and had ten children together until William, under pressure from royal advisers, abandoned her.


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By: Alison Light

ISBN: 9780140254105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. It explores the hidden history of service.

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