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By: George Psychoundakis

ISBN: 9780141043340
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. This book presents an account of George's activities across mountainous terrain, come blazing summer or freezing winter.


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By: Noel 'Razor' Smith

ISBN: 9780141038568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dr Duncan Harding

ISBN: 9780241446836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nicholas Monsarrat

ISBN: 9780141042831
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9780141190198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse.


(Hardback)

By: James Kavanagh

ISBN: 9781844884148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kate Dramis

ISBN: 9780241630945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Edith Wharton

ISBN: 9780143039709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a tale about a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. She marries well above herself twice and both times fails to recognize her husbands' strengths of character or the weakness of her own, and it is they, not she, who pay the price.


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By: Clive Cussler

ISBN: 9781405927680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Oswald

ISBN: 9781405917131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 14th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When an Edinburgh Police Vice Squad raid goes embarrassingly awry, Inspector Tony McLean is confronted by something he had thought long buried. Haunted by the echoes of an old case, the memories won't fade as McLean struggles to piece together the elusive connections between a series of strange and gruesome deaths shocking the city.


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By: Georges Simenon

ISBN: 9780141393520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. A great empty space. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. They stop a moment to catch their breath, and work out how far they have still to go. And suddenly the match falls to the ground, as Delfosse gives a cry and rushes back towards the washroom door.


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By: Mike Phillips

ISBN: 9780241482674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chris Clarke

ISBN: 9780141994352
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Paul Broks

ISBN: 9780241957462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stewart Binns

ISBN: 9781405916288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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1915- The Western Front is a wasteland of barbed wire, and mud-filled trenches. Winston Churchill, searching for a solution to the stalemate, commits the Allies to a disastrous Gallipoli campaign. As men on both sides die in droves, mill-workers work tirelessly for the war effort while families confront the broken bodies of returning soldiers.


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By: H. E. Bates

ISBN: 9780141029672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A visitor: one Cedric Charlton, Her Majesty's inspector of taxes is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn't paid his tax. Mariette takes a shine to 'Charley' - as Pop calls him - and before long the family have introduced him to the delights of country living. In fact, soon Charley can't see any reason to return to the office at all.


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By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141033006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop their spread the Triffids, mobile plants with stingers and carnivorous appetites, seem set to take control.


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By: Lucy Robinson

ISBN: 9781405911603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it


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By: Jane Corry

ISBN: 9780241981740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tim Weaver

ISBN: 9781405912709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight - A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too.


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By: Saul Bellow

ISBN: 9780141188867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, Corde is troubled: at home the centre is not holding firm, in Eastern Europe authority is cruel and dehumanising.


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By: Richard Williams

ISBN: 9780241950128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Millions of people around the world watched in horror on that fateful day in Imola at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix when Ayrton Senna's car careered off the track at 190mph. The greatest driver in Formula One history was dead. This book explores Senna's life.


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By: John Christopher

ISBN: 9780141190174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain, society starts to descend into barbarism.


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By: Peter Ackroyd

ISBN: 9780140455656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, the quest for the Holy Grail. This title presents an account of the knights of the Round Table.

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