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By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9780141195636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer. This book explores the letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile.
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By: Christopher Clark
ISBN: 9780141039930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. This book presents a fresh interpretation of this contentious figure, focusing on how his thirty-year reign from 1888 to 1918 affected Germany, and the rest of Europe.
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By: Fumiko Chiba
ISBN: 9781405936132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Elias Lnnrot
ISBN: 9780241403068
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gareth Stedman Jones
ISBN: 9780141024806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Nick Harkaway
ISBN: 9780241714904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780241963302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit.
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By: Jessica Moor
ISBN: 9780241986387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Keith Haring
ISBN: 9780143105978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork - with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion - filtered in to the world's consciousness. This title features ninety black-and-white images of his classic artwork and Polaroid images.
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By: Kellie Harrington
ISBN: 9780241996034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Walter Scott
ISBN: 9780140436549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th January 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all the noblemen of England. It is rumoured that the Queen may chose him for her husband. This story is a depiction of intrigue, power struggles and superstition in a bygone age.
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By: Robert Skidelsky
ISBN: 9780141043609
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative This title shows how the great economist's ideas not only explain why the current financial crisis occurred - but are our best way out.
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By: Michael Asher
ISBN: 9780140258554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. This work presents an account that sheds light on this tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times.
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By: Nezami Ganjavi
ISBN: 9780143138631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9780141441795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Orphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for the Carolinas.
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By: Nicola Williams
ISBN: 9780241568088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th July 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN: 9780141199979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands.
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By: Snorri Sturluson
ISBN: 9780140441833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th July 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The biography of one of the most remarkable and memorable of the Medieval kings of Norway.
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By: Dorothy Dunnett
ISBN: 9780718185794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780141396521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Under the rule of King John, England is forced into war when the French challenge the legitimacy of John's claim to the throne and determine to install his nephew Arthur in his place. And as the desire to cling to power dominates England's paranoid and weak-willed king, his country is threatened with disaster.
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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By: Hunter S Thompson
ISBN: 9780241196496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes.
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By: Adam Weymouth
ISBN: 9780141983790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jenny Bayliss
ISBN: 9781405971041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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