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By: Stephen Breen
ISBN: 9781405968423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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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By: Niall Ferguson
ISBN: 9780141022000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Lili Chin
ISBN: 9780241653647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dick Francis
ISBN: 9780718179083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jonah Dereham is a bloodstock agent who buys and sells horses for his clients. As an ex-jockey, it's the ideal quiet life - until Jonah is attacked by thugs out to sabotage his business. Unfortunately for them, Jonah's a man with a steely resolve. He's determined to find out who is trying to ruin him, and why.
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By: Hans Eysenck
ISBN: 9781405932301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Varlan Shalamov
ISBN: 9780140186956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1994
UK Publication Date: 28th July 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. This book captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours.
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By: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780141005171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Chronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm.
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By: Sigrid Undset
ISBN: 9780143039167
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Nobel-laureate author tells the life story of a passionate and headstrong woman in the 14th century. She paints a richly detailed backdrop of day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents.
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By: Roberto Calasso
ISBN: 9780241957561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two painters - Ingres and Delacroix - about whom Baudelaire wrote acutely, and then turns to Degas and Manet, who followed in the tracks Baudelaire laid down in his great essay The Painter of Modern Life.
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780140188370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1999
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan merchants - Waugh describes the local colour as he cruises around the Mediterranean as an Englishman abroad.
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By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
ISBN: 9780140435849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1998
UK Publication Date: 30th April 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture.
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By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
ISBN: 9780141198842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her
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By: Marion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN: 9780140241938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1998
UK Publication Date: 7th May 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Spans the creation of Avalon itself, right up to the birth of King Arthur. This novel presented through the successive lives of its three powerful priestesses: Caillean; Dierna; and finally Viviane, high priestess of Avalon and Lady of the Lake who safeguards the Grail.
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By: Gary Shteyngart
ISBN: 9780241984086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nicci French
ISBN: 9780141034164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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You wake in the dark, gagged and bound. A man visits you, feeds you. And tells you that he will kill you - just like all the rest. Abbie Devereaux doesn't know where she is or how she got there. She's so terrified she can barely remember her own name - and she's sure of just one thing: that she will survive this nightmare.
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By: Y-Dang Troeung
ISBN: 9781802063295
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Owen Hatherley
ISBN: 9780141975894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reveals the history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings. This is a book about power, and what power does in cities. It is a journey of discovery, plunging us into the maelstrom of socialist architecture.
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By: Otto Dov Kulka
ISBN: 9780718197025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As a child, the distinguished historian the author was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his story set to one side. This title tells his story.
