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By: Adrian Desmond
ISBN: 9780140131925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1992
UK Publication Date: 29th October 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God.
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By: Daniel C. Dennett
ISBN: 9780140167344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1996
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Argues that the theory of evolution can demystify the miracles of life without devaluing our most cherished beliefs. In this book, the author explores every aspect of evolutionary thinking to show why it is so fundamental to our existence, and why it affirms - not threatens - our convictions about the meaning of life.
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By: Leonora Brito
ISBN: 9780241999516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: A S Webb
ISBN: 9780241676363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jane Shemilt
ISBN: 9781405915298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought.
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By: Kate Eastham
ISBN: 9780241371244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vladimir Sorokin
ISBN: 9780241355114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dominic Frisby
ISBN: 9780241360842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141036731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.
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By: Dambisa Moyo
ISBN: 9780141031187
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. In this book, the author shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around.
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By: Dick Francis
ISBN: 9781405916646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Alan York's friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral's fall. After the race, York visits the fence and discovers a coil of wire lying beside the fence post and signs of where the wire had been attached. The fall was no accident - but murder.
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By: James Oswald
ISBN: 9781405917094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A family lies slaughtered in an isolated house in North East Fife... Morag Weatherly and her two young daughters have been shot by husband Andrew, an influential politician, before he turned the gun on himself. But what would cause a rich, successful man to snap so suddenly
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By: P. J. Tracy
ISBN: 9781405915595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It should have been a simple journey - a drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin. But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky and police Deputy Sharon Mueller deep in the northern woods, far from civilization and a mobile phone signal. Then the car breaks down.
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By: Gytha Lodge
ISBN: 9780241644713
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9780241978665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ragnar Jnasson
ISBN: 9780241493632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chris Chibnall
ISBN: 9780241665763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Merc Rodoreda
ISBN: 9780241352540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Robert Trivers
ISBN: 9780141019918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Looks at how and why we so often deceive ourselves. This book examines not only how we self-deceive, but also why, taking examples from aviation disasters, con artists, sexual betrayals and conflicts within families. It can make you rethink something that you think you know.
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By: Lesley Pearse
ISBN: 9780241544938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141191263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards.
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By: Neil Ansell
ISBN: 9780141049328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author spent five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales. He immersed himself in the rugged British landscape, exploring nature's unspoilt wilderness and man's relationship with it. It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on end.
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By: Ranjay Gulati
ISBN: 9780241513392
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alex McBride
ISBN: 9780141042725
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Takes us behind the scenes of Britain's criminal justice system. In this title, the author introduces us to its characters and arcane eccentricities, and tells stories of courtroom triumph and defeat. It deals with the question: how do we ensure that the guilty are convicted and the innocent walk free
