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By: D. W. Winnicott

ISBN: 9780241455685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chaim Potok

ISBN: 9780141040776
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the 20th century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.


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By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141181479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed.


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By: Dorothy Parker

ISBN: 9780141182582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle.


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By: Jean Rhys

ISBN: 9780141984858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Italo Calvino

ISBN: 9780141189680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.


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By: Truman Capote

ISBN: 9780141188089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.


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By: John le Carr

ISBN: 9780241322307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sylvia Townsend Warner

ISBN: 9780241454817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arthur Miller

ISBN: 9780141182551
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows how the small city of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations. This is a depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, and more.


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By: Stanislaw Lem

ISBN: 9780141394596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...' Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations.


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By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141185415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see. This title expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse.


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By: Jack Kerouac

ISBN: 9780141184883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Follows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.


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By: R. D. Laing

ISBN: 9780141189376
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Using case studies of patients the author had worked with, this title argues that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world.


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By: Muriel Spark

ISBN: 9780141188348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance.


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By: Ryszard Kapuscinski

ISBN: 9780141188034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. This work depicts the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to the vagaries of a ruler.


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By: Elizabeth Von Arnim

ISBN: 9780141191829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A notice in "The Times" addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer, escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy.


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By: Allen Ginsberg

ISBN: 9780141398990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. This book attempts to offers a portrait of this poet by bringing together his poetry, journals, music, photographs and letters, much of it never before published.


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By: Carlo Emilio Gadda

ISBN: 9780241706992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tove Ditlevsen

ISBN: 9780241391914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Albert Camus

ISBN: 9780141187945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, this novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - and our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured.


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By: Betty Friedan

ISBN: 9780141192055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Victims of a false belief system, women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. This title deals with these women and aims to set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality.


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By: Norman Mailer

ISBN: 9780141184142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 27th July 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire.


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By: James Baldwin

ISBN: 9780140182750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1990
UK Publication Date: 25th January 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

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