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By: John Dos Passos
ISBN: 9780141185811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, the author builds up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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By: James Joyce
ISBN: 9780141197418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An undisputed modernist classic, "Ulysses'" ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. This title states that "Ulysses" is 'an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies.
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By: Arie Kruglanski
ISBN: 9780241467701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Arie Kruglanski
ISBN: 9780241467695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: J. Le Fanu
ISBN: 9780140437461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Maud Ruthyn is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune.
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By: Harriet Stowe
ISBN: 9780140390032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1981
UK Publication Date: 17th September 1981
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, this novel intends to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty.
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By: Eric Ambler
ISBN: 9780141190341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Kenton a journalist travels to Nuremberg to investigate a top-level meeting, but he boards a train bound for Austria after a bad night of gambling. Stranded with no money, he decides to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities. He soon discovers that the documents he holds have far more than cash value and that they could cost him his life.
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By: Esther Ghey
ISBN: 9780241738733
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sean Thomas Russell
ISBN: 9780141033143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It is 1793. The thunder of cannon fire echoes across the English Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts ...The opening skirmishes of the French Revolutionary War send ageing frigate HMS Themis into waters swarming with enemy ships of the line.
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By: Henri Barbusse
ISBN: 9780141393438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. This title presents a critique of inequality between ranks, the incomprehension of those who have not experienced battle, and of war itself.
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By: Marian Keyes
ISBN: 9781405934350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780140435535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 7th May 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string choir' and replace it with a modern mechanical organ, the new schoolteacher, Fancy Day, causes an upheaval of a more romantic nature, winning the hearts of 3 men - a local farmer, a church musician and Maybold.
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By: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780241504468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
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By: Dr Sophie Farooque
ISBN: 9780241527887
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Darwin
ISBN: 9781846140891
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked. This book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
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By: Adam Phillips
ISBN: 9780241964088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Pittacus Lore
ISBN: 9780718184896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Vin Linna
ISBN: 9780141393650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War, as they argue, joke, swear, cadge a loaf of bread or a cigarette, combat both boredom and horror in the swamps and pine forests - and discover that war will make or break them.
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By: David McDonald
ISBN: 9780241996669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Katherine Angel
ISBN: 9780718194772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, this book underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman.
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By: Sunil Amrith
ISBN: 9780141982632
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Claire Fuller
ISBN: 9780241457467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Maria Sharapova
ISBN: 9780141987521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nicci French
ISBN: 9780141020914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck - for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy accidentally knocks her off her bike - and not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package - only to find the client slashed to pieces in the hall of her own home.
