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By: Laure Van Rensburg
ISBN: 9781405949484
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Adriana Trigiani
ISBN: 9780241565841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Sinad Moriarty
ISBN: 9780241970744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jamie D'Amato
ISBN: 9780241732014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Marina Lewycka
ISBN: 9780241430323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ross Macdonald
ISBN: 9780141196602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator - one who's been working with Nick - turns up dead, Archer soon realizes this isn't simply about some stolen loot.
(Paperback)
By: Harry Crews
ISBN: 9780143135098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Charles Webb
ISBN: 9780141190242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As far as Benjamin's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy life. When his parents' friend, an older woman, strips naked in front of him and they begin an affair, it seems he might have found a way out. That is, until her daughter comes into the picture.
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By: Charles Webb
ISBN: 9780140026931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1981
UK Publication Date: 30th April 1981
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Benjamin came down from university, this is how he talked - 'For twenty-one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me'. It was not what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson and ran off with her daughter.
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780141393506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone had tried to obliterate the head, someone very angry. The pen had bitten into the paper. There were so many criss-crossed lines that not a single square millimetre had been left visible.
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780241980347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Colin MacCabe
ISBN: 9780141189598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Healy, the son of poor Irish immigrants in London, grows up hardened by violence and soon finds himself overwhelmed by alcoholism. He ends up in the grass arena: the parks and streets of the inner city, where beggars, thieves, prostitutes and killers fight for survival and each day brings the question of where to find the next drink.
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By: Eimear Ryan
ISBN: 9781844885336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
ISBN: 9780141989624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Linda Collister
ISBN: 9780718157111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book to accompany the hit BBC2 TV series "The Great British Bake-off". It takes us on a tour of the very best in baking our nation has to offer - from Eccles cakes to Cornish pasties, Chelsea buns to Scottish gingerbread.
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By: Dominic Sandbrook
ISBN: 9780141979304
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Samuel Pepys
ISBN: 9780141397542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a selection from author's startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire.
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By: Cecil Woodham-Smith
ISBN: 9780140145151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1991
UK Publication Date: 30th May 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. This book provides a definitive account.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Kevin Tracey
ISBN: 9780241762400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780141038841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through author's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This title tells the trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies.
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By: Gregory Zuckerman
ISBN: 9780141043159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 29th July 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing. John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. This title tells the story of the trader John Paulson who predicted the economic crash in 2008 - and made the biggest windfall in history.
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By: H. Kitto
ISBN: 9780140135213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1991
UK Publication Date: 28th February 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.
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By: Robert Kee
ISBN: 9780140291650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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THE GREEN FLAG stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes (THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY, THE BOLD FENIAN MEN and OURSELVES ALONE), this outstanding history is now available as a single volume.
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By: Patrick Kavanagh
ISBN: 9780141184203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching.
