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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: Edmund Blunden
ISBN: 9780141184364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An autobiography of the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden. It records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. It tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. It shows how he found hope in the natural landscape.
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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: General
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.
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By: Rachel Marks
ISBN: 9781405940092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sean Thomas Russell
ISBN: 9780241952078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Under the command of Captain Charles Hayden, Royal Navy frigate HMS Themis is sent to counter the threat of the French forces in the West Indies. In the middle of the vast Atlantic, Hayden discovers two Spanish noblemen, castaway in a ship's boat - a stroke of almost impossible good fortune.
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By: Mike Maden
ISBN: 9780241742259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Graham Brown
ISBN: 9780241704448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Richard Osman
ISBN: 9780241743980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron return in the brilliant new book by #1 bestseller Richard Osman in his record-breaking series The Thursday Murder Club. Available for pre-order now!
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By: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9780140432114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1985
UK Publication Date: 31st October 1985
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. This volume also shows that his work "Unto this Last" is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy.
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By: Mulk Raj Anand
ISBN: 9780141393605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with an introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system.
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By: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780141026183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours, thus dispelling its mystery. In this book, the author argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken and shows how an understanding of science in fact inspires the human imagination and enhances our wonder of the world.
