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By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780141189802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features letters that cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the "Beat Generation". Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, this title includes letters that provide a glimpse into Burroughs' psyche, revealing his struggle with drug addiction, and his confusion over his sexual identity.
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By: William Pullen
ISBN: 9780241262849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kilian Jornet Burgada
ISBN: 9780241004852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At 18 months he went on his first hike. At 3, he climbed his first mountain. At 26, he plans to run up Everest - without an oxygen mask. Kilian Jornet has conquered some of the toughest physical tests on the planet. This book is written from the heart of the world's greatest endurance runner, for whom life presents one simple choice: Run. Or die.
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By: Patrick Lee
ISBN: 9781405914994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 19th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sam Dryden was done being a hero. But when, acting on instinct, he hides a terrified young girl from a group of well-armed pursuers, his fate is sealed. Eleven-year-old Rachel can't remember much, but she knows she was imprisoned by the men trying to kill her.
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By: Amy McCulloch
ISBN: 9780241641392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th June 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Cobbett
ISBN: 9780140435795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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William Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the encroaching cities and sufferings of the poor. Ian Dyck places these accounts in the context of Cobbett's political and social beliefs.
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By: Geoffrey Hosking
ISBN: 9780718193607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tracing Russia's story from the settlement of Kiev onwards, this title includes a chapter on the role of Putin and Medvedev, and their impact on Russia's economy, politics and its citizens.
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By: Richard Pipes
ISBN: 9780140247688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1995
UK Publication Date: 31st August 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s. It describes the "patrimonial" state, and analyzes the failure of the peasantry, nobility, middle-class and clergy to stand up to the increasing absolutism of the tsar.
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By: Richard Overy
ISBN: 9780141049175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Drawing on a wealth of evidence to account for the Soviet Union's victory against invading forces, this book offers an account of the epic struggle that turned the tide of the Second World War. It re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians.
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By: Bryan Karetnyk
ISBN: 9780241299739
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Emilie Pine
ISBN: 9780241986240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anastasia Nesvetailova
ISBN: 9780141986241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Barry Unsworth
ISBN: 9780140119930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 4th February 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A story about the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ. This novel was awarded 1992 Booker prize.
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By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780241963265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Focuses on the remarkable diaries of Pepys and brings his story vividly to life once more.
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By: Mark Aston
ISBN: 9781405942614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141198231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs.
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By: Keith Lowe
ISBN: 9780141034515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended.
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By: Gianluigi Buffon
ISBN: 9780241787151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gianluigi Buffon
ISBN: 9780241787137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Marian Keyes
ISBN: 9780718158897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it - she realized that baking was what she needed to do in order to get her through each day. And so she baked, and she wrote her recipes down, and little by little the depression started to lift, along with her sponges...
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By: Ash Maurya
ISBN: 9780241279243
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sylvia Day
ISBN: 9781405912273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lucien Remington, a debauched libertine, finds the untouchable Lady Julienne La Coeur dressed as a man in his gentleman's club.
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By: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
ISBN: 9780241984789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141184029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another.
