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By: Barbara Vine
ISBN: 9780141040479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery.
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By: Oscar de Muriel
ISBN: 9780718179847
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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New Year's Day, 1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and Inspector Ian Frey. Before the murder, the suspect was heard in whispered conversation with a fellow patient - a girl who had been mute for years. What made her suddenly break her silence
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By: Norman Mailer
ISBN: 9780141394961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. This book is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about the extremity of what they were trying to achieve.
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By: Toby Green
ISBN: 9780141977669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jessica Bull
ISBN: 9780241642115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gloria Stewart
ISBN: 9780241354605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
ISBN: 9781405925594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Lisa Jewell
ISBN: 9780140295979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend. Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points. The Londons also have a new lodger a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend or foe to the family
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By: Jack Monroe
ISBN: 9780718178949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jack is a cash-strapped single mum living in Southend. When she found herself with a shopping budget of just GBP10 a week to feed herself and her young son, she addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness, creativity and by embracing her local supermarket's 'basics' range.
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By: Jean Sarocchi
ISBN: 9780141186580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Is it possible to die a happy death This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.
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By: Mikhail Lermontov
ISBN: 9780143105633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. It features Pechorin who is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom.
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By: Paul Ginsborg
ISBN: 9780140124965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1990
UK Publication Date: 27th September 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. This book presents an account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past decades. It is suitable for those who wish to understand contemporary Italy.
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By: John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN: 9780140153958
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1991
UK Publication Date: 29th August 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book explaining the history of economics; including the powerful and vested interests which moulded the theories to their financial advantage; as a means of understanding modern economics.
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By: John Burrow
ISBN: 9780140283792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the cultural history of Europe and America.
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By: Carolyn Abbate
ISBN: 9780141009018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries The authors answer this question in their scrupulous and provocative retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the means by which it communicates, and its societal role.
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By: Steven Runciman
ISBN: 9780241298770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Davies
ISBN: 9780140284751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Strarting from the Ice Ages, this account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. It spans prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, offering a history of an enduring people.
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By: Michael Cunningham
ISBN: 9780241954539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the Seventies and Eighties. And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live.
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By: K. Iggulden
ISBN: 9780241417829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: David King
ISBN: 9781844885855
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Boswell
ISBN: 9780140432213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
UK Publication Date: 31st May 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gytha Lodge
ISBN: 9780241471012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gytha Lodge
ISBN: 9780241471005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ashok Banker
ISBN: 9781405949590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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