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By: Kathy Acker
ISBN: 9780241302514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241493700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 20th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Franoise Sagan
ISBN: 9780141198750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Cecile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences.
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By: Woody Guthrie
ISBN: 9780141187228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An autobiography of Woody Guthrie, founder of modern American folk music. This book presents a cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.
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By: Yambo Ouologuem
ISBN: 9780241680803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9780241264119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780141182797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while - down.
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141182483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141185378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help.
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By: Silvia Federici
ISBN: 9780241532539
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th July 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780141198286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation.
(Hardback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241521809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Henry Roth
ISBN: 9780141188652
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father, but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. This novel interweaves the love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity.
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141185088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lee Chong, the owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the Bear Flag Restaurant with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart, and Doc, secreted away in his home at Western Biological Laboratories, is the fount of all wisdom.
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By: Eric Williams
ISBN: 9780241548165
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9780141190280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. This is a portrayal of family tensions.
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9780241270530
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from survivors. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, this book shows what it is like to remember in a world that wants you to forget.
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By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9780241305164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Yuko Tsushima
ISBN: 9780241335031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tove Ditlevsen
ISBN: 9780241457573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Wyndham
ISBN: 9780141191492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress.
