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By: Buchi Emecheta
ISBN: 9780241578131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"The story is set primarily in Lagos, Nigeria, between the 1930s and 1960s. Nnu Ego, a hard-working, optimistic Ibo woman, remains fiercely determined to save her children from the devastation of war, the erosion of village life, and the breakdown of tradition."--]cProvided by publisher.
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780241188453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town in this new translation, book twenty-two in the new Penguin Maigret series. He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming swollen. The beams of the lighthouses joined in the sky.
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By: Patrick Hennessey
ISBN: 9780141039268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. It tells the story of how a modern soldier is made, from the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst to the nightmare of Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Paperback, Media tie-in)
By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
ISBN: 9781405919760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Copenhagen detective Carl Morck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right. The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy.
(Paperback)
By: Beth Underdown
ISBN: 9780241991732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Meik Wiking
ISBN: 9780241302033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kevin Lewis
ISBN: 9780141014623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the violent anger the author suffered at the hands of his mother and father, to the continuous torments at school; from the way in which he coped with rejection from people he trusted, to suffering from bulimia and a wish to take his own life, he succeeded in making a better life for himself. This title presents his story.
(Paperback)
By: Tommy Conlon
ISBN: 9781405959018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kingsley Amis
ISBN: 9780141194318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, the author provides advice about the linguistic blunders that lie in wait for us, from danglers and four-letter words to jargon and even Welsh rarebit.
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By: Emmanuel Carrre
ISBN: 9780141981154
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Clive Cussler
ISBN: 9780241954188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Texas oil baron Charlie King contacts Sam and Remi Fargo he has an unusual request. He hired an investigator - and good friend of the pair - to locate his missing father in the Far East. But now the investigator has vanished. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both
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By: Romain Gary
ISBN: 9780241345627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Wyndham
ISBN: 9780141032993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people. This book narrates how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
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By: Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780141186085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIGH WINDOW and THE LITTLE SISTER.
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By: Jean Menzies
ISBN: 9780241675694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A luscious, sapphic reimagining of the myths of Camelot, from historian, award-winning writer and YouTube sensation Jean Menzies
(Hardback)
By: Jason Hazeley
ISBN: 9780718188719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jason Hazeley
ISBN: 9780718184391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jason Hazeley
ISBN: 9780718184476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jason Hazeley
ISBN: 9780718188641
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9780141036670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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States that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential - not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. This title brings the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
(Paperback)
By: Deyan Sudjic
ISBN: 9780141031170
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationship with them, how they shape our lives and why we desire them. This book makes us part with our money. It defines who we think we are.
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By: Edith Nesbit
ISBN: 9780241983485
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Barbara Taylor
ISBN: 9780241951828
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This memoir tells the story of author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century.
(Hardback)
By: Richard Osman
ISBN: 9780241512449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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