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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780241980385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Giacomo Leopardi
ISBN: 9780141193878
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Covers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death.
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By: Alan Greenspan
ISBN: 9780141989310
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: C.S. Forester
ISBN: 9780140081770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1987
UK Publication Date: 28th May 1987
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes the stories "Hornblower and the Atropos", "The Happy Return", and "A Ship of the Line".
(Hardback)
By: Captain Tom Moore
ISBN: 9780241504017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Andrew Graham Dixon
ISBN: 9780241954645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This book presents the readings of Caravaggio's pictures, which show how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time.
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By: Ashleigh Mogford
ISBN: 9780241663523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Christopher Lee
ISBN: 9780670916467
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Richard Miles
ISBN: 9780141018096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In an epic series of battles, the mighty empires of Carthage and Rome vied for supremacy of Mediterranean - before the Carthaginians finally buckled and their great capital city was razed to the ground, burning for six days and nights, its inhabitants slaughtered or enslaved. This title charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World.
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By: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 9780141189345
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh.
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By: Nicci French
ISBN: 9780141034188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends. Despite a comfortable home life, a tough job and friends who admire her, she secretly enjoys taking reckless, dangerous walks on the wild side. But Holly can't keep those worlds separate forever. Soon enough her secret life bleeds into her safe one and everything spirals out of control.
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By: Eric Ambler
ISBN: 9780141190327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas.
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By: Jonathan Glover
ISBN: 9780140134797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1990
UK Publication Date: 28th June 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780141397054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions.
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By: Leslie Marmon Silko
ISBN: 9780241441640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Mark Tighe
ISBN: 9780241990063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Bill Beswick
ISBN: 9780241448014
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: David Robinson
ISBN: 9780141977508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charlie Chaplin is the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's life was marked by extraordinary contrasts: the child of London slums who became a multimillionaire; and the on-screen clown who was a driven perfectionist behind the camera. This book tells his story.
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By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780141036939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius.
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By: Clare Jackson
ISBN: 9780141987453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sally Bedell Smith
ISBN: 9781405932790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780141394589
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Charlie Bucket, a mysterious, eccentric chocolate factory owner and the golden ticket that transforms his existence.
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By: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780143106333
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka's famous, mysterious chocolate factory What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr Wonka's orders
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By: Claire Harman
ISBN: 9780241963661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. This book presents an illuminating account of one of our best-loved novelists.
