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By: Nick Stone

ISBN: 9780241957905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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: William Trevor

ISBN: 9780241969311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. The probings of an outsider bring havoc to a crumbling Dublin hotel. What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out.


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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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By: Carlos Drummond de Andrade

ISBN: 9780141396958
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1962 de Andrade published Antologia Poetica, a personal anthology of poems from his first ten books. This selection draws on de Andrade's anthology to encompass his finest works within his chosen areas of interest: The Individual, Minas Gerais, Family, Friends, Experience of Love, Poetry Itself, and An Attempt to Understand Existence.


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By: St John Greene

ISBN: 9780718158330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A list created by Kate Greene, mother of two little boys, Reef and Finn, while she was terminally ill. This list was intended to help her husband, Singe, create the best life for their boys after she was gone.


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By: Greg Baxter

ISBN: 9780241969984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German police woman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man's sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvation.


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By: Cicero

ISBN: 9780140442885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1979
UK Publication Date: 26th June 1975
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman life, law, and history.


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By: Patrick Neate

ISBN: 9780140286557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Zambawi, a banana republic in sub-Saharan Africa, is on the verge of revolution. President Adini, dictator and eunuch, clings to power whilst his soldiers switch sides so often they don't know which uniform to wear. All in all, Zambawi is not the ideal location for student teacher Jim Tulloh to indulge in a spot of character building.


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By: India Knight

ISBN: 9780241955048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Clara Hutt is forty-six years old, and in pretty good nick, considering. She has kick-ass underwear, a large and loving family, and a healthy sense of what matters in life. Until Gaby moves in. Gaby's an old school friend of Clara's who has just returned from LA.


By: Frederick Douglass

ISBN: 9780140439182
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Written ten years after his legal emancipation, this book catapulted Frederick Douglass into the international spotlight as a leading spokesperson for American blacks, both freed and in slavery.


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By: Maxim Gorky

ISBN: 9780140182859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1990
UK Publication Date: 27th September 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. This volume of an autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the raw, remembered with charm and poignancy and without bitterness.


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By: Des Bishop

ISBN: 9780241956502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For years, acclaimed comedian Des Bishop wanted to write a show about his father. He and his father collaborated on "My Dad Was Nearly James Bond" - a celebration of what Des calls 'the heroics of fatherhood'. This title presents a memoir inspired by the stage show.


By: Gilda O'Neill

ISBN: 9780140259506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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London's East End is a place that is at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. This title traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, and jellied eels.


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By: Rebecca Done

ISBN: 9781405923965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nikola Tesla

ISBN: 9780143106616
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes three additional articles by the author which were published in "The Electrical Experimenter" magazine and represent the breadth of his interests: "Tesla would pour Lightning from Airships to Consume Foe" (1916), "The Action of The Eye" (1893), "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy" (1900).


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By: Judith Summers

ISBN: 9780141032238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Life for Judith Summers and her son Joshua seemed relentlessly bleak. Then George bounced into their lives. A loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with film-star looks, George reawoke their joie de vivre. Yet Judith soon discovered that living with George had its drawbacks. He was a full-time job and as expensive to run as a Ferrari.


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By: Isabelle Broom

ISBN: 9781405925273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Holly Wright has had a difficult few years. After her mother's death, she's become expert at keeping people at a distance - including her boyfriend, Rupert. But when Holly receives an unexpected letter explaining that an aunt she never met has left her a house on the Greek island of Zakynthos, the walls she has built begin to crumble.


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By: Robin Oliveira

ISBN: 9780241950005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mary Sutter, a brilliant young midwife, dreams of proving herself as capable as any man. But medical schools refuse to teach women. So when her heart is broken, she heads to Washington DC to tend the Civil War wounded.


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By: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780241950517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of short memoirs that blur the lines between biography and fiction as award-winning writer imagines what his life would have been like had he made different choices. It is an account of another life, of other choices - of turning fact into fiction.


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By: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780241950494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers the reader insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots.


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By: M.O. Walsh

ISBN: 9780241004081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts across the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing and the perpetrator is not caught. Her fourteen-year-old neighbour has loved Lindy from afar since they were kids.


By: Michael Talbot

ISBN: 9780140193282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An account of how quantum physics is putting forward ideas that confirm the perceived beliefs of mystics who think the world is an illusion

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