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By: Jodie Chapman
ISBN: 9781405946322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780141185934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
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By: Wilfred Owen
ISBN: 9780141397603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the true horror of the trenches.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141186900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love, and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new betrayal, hope is hard to cling on to.
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By: Hilary Spurling
ISBN: 9780141030791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sophocles
ISBN: 9780141397702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.
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By: Gillian McAllister
ISBN: 9781405928274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780141397900
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life.
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By: John Newman
ISBN: 9780140433746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th September 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. This autobiography traces his spiritual development since boyhood and his close involvement in the high church Tractarian Movement.
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By: Mollie Moran
ISBN: 9780718159993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When young Mollie became a 'skivvy' in a stately London townhouse aged just 14, she quickly learned that a large amount of elbow grease and a sense of humour would be tantamount to surviving there. Through Mollie's eyes we are offered a fascinating glimpse into London's invisible 'downstairs', a world that has long-since vanished.
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By: Claudia Roden
ISBN: 9780718145811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author returns to the countries of Turkey, Lebanon and Morocco in search of new and old recipes and to find out how cooking has evolved since she first introduced readers to these cuisines in the 1960s. In this book, she pays tribute to the different culinary histories and contemporary food of these countries.
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By: Roberto Calasso
ISBN: 9781846145070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Focuses the ancient texts known as the Vedas. This volume explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that define the Vedas.
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By: Hanna Jameson
ISBN: 9780241515075
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hanna Jameson
ISBN: 9780241992630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nazanine Hozar
ISBN: 9780241987667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Brabazon
ISBN: 9781405937023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780141035871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. He sets off with his valet Passepartout, and passes through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and racing against the clock.
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By: Michael Wooldridge
ISBN: 9780718188757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780241954461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers.
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By: Roger McGough
ISBN: 9780241962275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book of poems that includes a series of haiku inspired by a London tube strike and a striking reworking of the author's famous 1960s poem 'Let Me Die a Youngman's Death'.
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By: Sarashina
ISBN: 9780140442823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1983
UK Publication Date: 30th January 1975
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A autobiography in which the anonymous writer intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of her travels and descriptions of the Japanese countryside. She illuminates her pilgrimages to temples and mystical dreams in exquisite prose, describing a journey that can be read as a metaphor for life itself.
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By: Mr Isaac Asimov
ISBN: 9780140172133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1993
UK Publication Date: 27th May 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Achimedes, Newton and Einstein, he takes the most complex concepts and explains it in such a way that a first-time reader on the subject feels confident on his/her understanding.
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By: Deepa Paul
ISBN: 9780241698396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Patrick McGrath
ISBN: 9780241973677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...
