(Hardback)
By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141195858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features "Christmas Carol" that had a significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.
(Paperback)
By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141194745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas.
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By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780241474426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Originally published in 1956, this short storyNbased on Capote's childhoodNtells of a young boy who lovingly makes fruitcakes from scratch at Christmastime with his elderly cousin. Now this American holiday classic is repackaged and includes an audio CD narrated by Broadway star and Oscar]-winning actress Holm. Full color.
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through
(Paperback)
By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
ISBN: 9780141993300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141184654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London.
(Paperback)
By: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780241951446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends who set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost
(Paperback)
By: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780141182605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills.
(Paperback)
By: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780141197531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean
(Hardback)
By: John Kennedy Toole
ISBN: 9780241284667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Kennedy Toole
ISBN: 9780141182865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him.
(Paperback)
By: John Kennedy Toole
ISBN: 9780141045641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Kennedy Toole
ISBN: 9780241951590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress.
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780140444735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1987
UK Publication Date: 27th August 1987
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This is a reader covering Tolstoy's later beliefs after he had rejected orthodox religion. The book mainly draws on "Confession" (1879), "What is My Faith" (1884) and other occasional pieces.
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By: Dan Beard
ISBN: 9780140430646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1976
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. This is a darkly comic consideration of the nature of human nature and society.
(Paperback)
By: Stacia Stark
ISBN: 9781405967716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780141393490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a French professor visiting the quiet, Dutch coastal town of Delfzjil is accused of murder, Maigret is sent to investigate. The community seem happy to blame an unknown outsider, but there are people much closer to home who seem to know much more than they're letting on.
(Paperback)
By: Stacia Stark
ISBN: 9781405967679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Nathan Thrall
ISBN: 9781802060041
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Nathan Thrall
ISBN: 9780241702208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN: 9780140455144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
(Paperback)
By: Amy Stuart
ISBN: 9781405957175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241396360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241965184
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend.
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By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN: 9780140444391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 25th October 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Demonstrates how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege.
