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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141186023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features Jim Nolan, disenfranchised and alone, his family destroyed by the system. Desperate to find his place in the world, Jim joins the Communist Party and becomes entangled in a strike of migrant workers which spirals out of control, unflinchingly detailing the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob.
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By: Sue Roe
ISBN: 9780241956038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps, but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills. This book tells about life in the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910.
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By: Sue Roe
ISBN: 9780241976609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: George Lamming
ISBN: 9780241296066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hisham Matar
ISBN: 9780241957073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 22nd December 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses.
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By: Buchi Emecheta
ISBN: 9780241578124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sylvia Day
ISBN: 9781405914222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For five years, Sapphire has been the King of Sari's most treasured concubine. Independent at last, she refuses to put herself in anyone's control again. But now another's scheming has led her into the path of proud, arrogant Wulfric, Crown Prince of the rival kingdom of D'Ashier, a man who is dangerous to her in every way.
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By: Dick Francis
ISBN: 9781405916806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charles Todd, a successful artist who paints horses, arrives at his cousin Donald's house and stumbles on a grisly scene: police cars everywhere, his cousin arrested for murder and Donald's wife brutally slain.
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By: John Ball
ISBN: 9780241238622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A musician found dead on the highway. It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that the black man - Virgil Tibbs - is himself a skilled homicide detective from California, whom inexperienced Chief Gillespie reluctantly recruits to help with the case.
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By: Peter Matthiessen
ISBN: 9780140144567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In June, 1975, a shoot-out between FBI and American Indians erupted near Wounded Knee. The confrontation ended with the death of three men and four Indians were charged with murder. This book suggests that one of them, Leonard Peltier, may be innocent.
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By: Tim Judah
ISBN: 9780141981086
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: India Knight
ISBN: 9780241967836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Whether it is coping with ageing parents, divorce, dating, teenagers, wavering libidos or your saggy bits, this book tells you how to deal with the obstacles while living life to the full.
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By: Sunil Khilnani
ISBN: 9780141981437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780141190020
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how they are to suffer for it, is not clear, and they hope for the best.
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By: S. I. Martin
ISBN: 9780241482704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: T. M. Devine
ISBN: 9780141981574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Patrick French
ISBN: 9780141041575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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India is the biggest democracy on earth, a country of dynamic change, huge divisions and countless identities. Is there any way to discover the 'real' India This book tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a vibrant democracy with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
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By: Lea Ypi
ISBN: 9780241661925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: E J Hobsbawm
ISBN: 9780140257885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1999
UK Publication Date: 29th April 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people.
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By: Chris D. Thomas
ISBN: 9780141982311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alex Pavesi
ISBN: 9780241433584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexandra Shulman
ISBN: 9780241978375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780241188477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, worse, he was fundamentally untrustworthy, some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what.
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By: Paulo Coelho
ISBN: 9780141442495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of texts and poems.
