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By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780141189789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 22nd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have turned us all into machines.
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By: Glyn Burgess
ISBN: 9780140445329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
UK Publication Date: 25th January 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a Pyrenean pass. Written by an unknown poet, this book tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies defiant to the end.
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By: Coralie Bickford-Smith
ISBN: 9780241367216
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780140436846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th April 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Examines how the sonnets are intertwined, the ways in which these works have been interpreted and the themes running through them. This edition includes further reading, commentaries on each poem, a textual history, variant and further sonnets and an index of first lines.
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By: Javier Castillo
ISBN: 9781405960908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Gray
ISBN: 9780241953907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every action. This title draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom.
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By: Ian Johnson
ISBN: 9780141986081
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN: 9780141192628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction.
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By: Matthew Parris
ISBN: 9780241957080
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan - which hapless embassy officials had to rescue from the clutches of the Moscow railway This title deals with these questions.
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By: Sam Willis
ISBN: 9780718188573
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780141011615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939 This title presents the objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake - and which was as much an international war as a Spanish one.
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By: Andrea Bartz
ISBN: 9780241661277
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Frances Ashcroft
ISBN: 9780141046532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do. This title reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells.
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By: Edwin Gale
ISBN: 9780141984988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Majella Kelly
ISBN: 9781802061727
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Paul Bowles
ISBN: 9780141191362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of the old city. His path soon crosses with the young, illiterate son of a healer.
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By: Beryl Matthews
ISBN: 9781405940603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Clive Cussler
ISBN: 9780141045924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a brilliant battleship gun engineer commits suicide, his disbelieving family turn to legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency. Quickly on the case, Isaac Bell establishes that the clues point not to suicide, but murder. So when further deaths connected to a top-secret project follow, Bell realizes that this is sabotage.
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By: Helen Tupper
ISBN: 9780241385845
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michael Marshall
ISBN: 9780241103067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1986
UK Publication Date: 30th June 1988
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of author's comic monologues, performed between 1929 and 1941. It features the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom, Sam Small, and King Arold.
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By: Nikolay Leskov
ISBN: 9780141397399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia's great comic masters.
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By: Kate Thompson
ISBN: 9780718189860
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Simon Spence
ISBN: 9780241957042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the Manchester backwaters to the worldwide 2012 tour, this title lays bare the irresistible tale of the last of the great bands. It traces the band's genesis, studded with violent gigs and abandoned recordings, and shaped by their infamous manager Gareth Evans.
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By: David Crystal
ISBN: 9780141015934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.
