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By: Felicity Lawrence

ISBN: 9780241967829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 2004 the author published her book, Not on the Label, where, in a series of undercover investigations she provided a shocking account of what really goes into the food we eat. When the horsemeat scandal hit the headlines in 2013, her book seemed prescient once again. In this work, she uncovers how British public ended up eating horses.


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By: Ben Masters

ISBN: 9780241955383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As Eliot and his friends wave goodbye to University - their education done with, the world calling - they must make a reckoning with everything that has gone by. Here it comes: the pints, the shots, the pubs, the clubs, the jokes, the 3AM hard truths, the bubble bursting, the tearing up of everything, the start and rush of the rest of your life.


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141189024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Joey Robinson visits the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-year-old stepson, Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has run. But for Joey and Peggy, the delicate balance of love and sex is threatened by a dangerous awareness.


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By: Malidoma Some

ISBN: 9780140194968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1995
UK Publication Date: 28th September 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, being harshly indoctrinated into European ways of thought and worship. This title tells the story of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world.


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By: Upton Sinclair

ISBN: 9780143137443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, Oil! ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre, which will illuminate the novel's urgent timeliness in our warming world"--


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By: William H. Gass

ISBN: 9780141180106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1997
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brackett Omensetter arrives, with his wife, family and belongings in the rural American town of Gilean. It swiftly becomes apparent that he is someone out of the ordinary, as he sets off a ground swell of violent emotions in the once tranquil commmunity. Who is he What does he represent


By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241143896
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Are we too obsessed with excess What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be This title explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, needs and motives. It provides arguments, wordplay and more.


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By: Merle Miller

ISBN: 9780143106968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book about being homosexual in the United States.


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By: Damon Runyon

ISBN: 9780141184234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of the stories of Damon Runyon who presents the 1950s world of guys and dolls on Broadway.


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By: Cicero

ISBN: 9780140445954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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These pioneering writings on the mechanics, tactics, and strategies of government were devised by the Roman Republic's most enlightened thinker.


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By: Daniel Anselme

ISBN: 9780141977546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Deals with the darkest moment of France's post-war history. Full of sympathy and feeling, this book is about the shame and terror felt by men returning home from war.


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By: Kerry Egan

ISBN: 9780241297292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gilbert Gardiner

ISBN: 9780140440096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. As regards his method of dealing with his material and shaping it into mould, he stands even higher than as a pure creator.


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By: Jason Burke

ISBN: 9780141024356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the summer of 1991 the author set off to join Kurdish guerillas fighting in Iraq. It was start of a journey that would take him from sands of Sahara to highest peaks of Himalayas, revealing true complexity and variety of 'Islamic world'. This title offers an account of life and death, war and peace, bigotry and ignorance, hate and tolerance.


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By: John Steinbeck

ISBN: 9780141186320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck's World War II news correspondence was written for the New Yolk Herald Tribune in the latter part of 1943.


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By: Mike Bayer

ISBN: 9780593296035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dan Hodges

ISBN: 9781405924405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To lead their country. This book deals with this campaign.


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By: Isabelle Broom

ISBN: 9781405935500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Patrick Lee

ISBN: 9781405915021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The middle of the night. Sam Dryden takes a call from an old friend from his days in the military. She needs his help. Urgently. There's no further explanation. Two hours later, Dryden and his former team mate smash their way in to a remote desert shack. Inside they discover four young girls, caged and threatened with death by their abductor.


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By: Stephen Grey

ISBN: 9780141038308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Coming up to Christmas, and reporter Stephen Grey is embedded with B Company, 2 Yorks, in southern Afghanistan during Operation Snakebite. Their mission: to take the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. For some this battle will be their last.


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By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

ISBN: 9781844883820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John L. Allen

ISBN: 9780141024653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Opus Dei is one of the most talked about, but least known religious organizations. This work separates the myths from the facts and descibes: the actual use of whips and the cilice; the extent of Opus Dei's funds; the identities of its influential members in politics, banking and high office; and how much power this shadowy group really has.


By: Euripides

ISBN: 9780140442595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1981
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features plays written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens. This title contains: "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", "The Suppliant Women", "Phoenician Women", "Orestes" and "Iphigenia in Aulis".


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By: Ludovico Ariosto

ISBN: 9780140443103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1991
UK Publication Date: 29th September 1977
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.

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