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By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780141441825
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this work presents an account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. It considers such subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, and the discovery of America.
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By: Marina Lewycka
ISBN: 9780241981443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gregory Zuckerman
ISBN: 9780241531716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: A.E. Housman
ISBN: 9780241303153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 24th August 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nick Laird
ISBN: 9780140424744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those' In this collection, the author's poems, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty", conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness.
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By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780141196381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files.
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By: Bernard Wasserstein
ISBN: 9781802061406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anas Nin
ISBN: 9780141183718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
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By: Anas Nin
ISBN: 9780241614686
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anas Nin
ISBN: 9780143566557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Weaving a sensual web of deceit as she plays dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids commitment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
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By: Cameron Ward
ISBN: 9781405952859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Cameron Ward
ISBN: 9781405951159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9780141190273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley.
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By: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9780140439083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Convalescing in London after a disastrous experience of war in Afghanistan, Dr John Watson finds himself sharing rooms with his enigmatic new acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes. But their quiet bachelor life at 221B Baker Street is soon interrupted by the grisly discovery of a dead man in a grimy 'ill-omened' house in south-east London.
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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141199702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the midst of the chaos two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer - are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman, as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer...
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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141196909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette.
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By: Elaine Brown
ISBN: 9780241537343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: W B Yeats
ISBN: 9780241251515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...'
By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
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By: Alain de Botton
ISBN: 9780241999417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tillie Cole
ISBN: 9781405962964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dawn French
ISBN: 9780141046341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, everything and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad... who's just, well... Dad. However, Mo is having a crisis.
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By: Martin Luther King
ISBN: 9780241473252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anthony Bale
ISBN: 9780241993408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: David Hume
ISBN: 9780140432442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 31st October 1985
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A key to modern studies of 18th century Western philosophy, the Treatise considers numerous classic philosophical issues, including causation, existence, freedom and necessity and morality. This is abridged edition has an introduction which explains Hume's thought and places it in the context of it
