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By: Arundhati Roy

ISBN: 9780141044095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What happens once democracy has been used up When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning This title provides an exploration of the political picture in India. It shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways.


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By: Jane Shemilt

ISBN: 9780718180911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hans Fallada

ISBN: 9780241300879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: P. J. Tracy

ISBN: 9781405915601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution...


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By: Oscar de Muriel

ISBN: 9781405926249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Georges Simenon

ISBN: 9780141396101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape...


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By: Wilfrid Hodges

ISBN: 9780141003146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point, and assuming no previous knowledge of logic, this work takes the reader through the whole gamut of logical expressions in a simple way.


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By: Sylvia Townsend Warner

ISBN: 9780241454886
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"In this early feminist classic, a London spinster breaks free from her controlling family and escapes to the countryside. She soon discovers that her new neighbors are a coven of bohemian witches and eventually encounters Satan himself, who is ready to make a pact"--


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By: Norman Collins

ISBN: 9780141442334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at Number 10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift.


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By: Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 9780141014746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when the author sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. This book deals with the author's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city.


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By: Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 9780241971499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route.


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By: David Gentleman

ISBN: 9780241443927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Mark Ovenden

ISBN: 9781846144172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning in the pioneering Victorian age, the author charts the evolution of architecture, branding, typeface, map design, interior and textile styles, posters, signage and graphic design and how these came together to shape the Underground's identity, and the character of London itself.


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By: Roy Porter

ISBN: 9780140105933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.


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By: Cathy Ross

ISBN: 9780141011592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discover which prehistoric mammals would once have lived by the River Thames. Take a detailed look at the crystal palace of the Great Exhibition and an early map of the underground. This title offers a perspective on one of the world's most exciting cities.


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By: Jack Kerouac

ISBN: 9780241348079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Life as a writer is colder, hungrier work than John Kendall had bargained for. Not even the survival guides he's written can help him. So when notorious racehorse trainer Tremayne Vickers approaches Kendall to write his biography, it's an offer the impoverished writer can't turn down.


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By: Anita Brookner

ISBN: 9780241977774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN: 9780141198033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'Look at the harlequins ...Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter.


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By: Grandma Marina

ISBN: 9780241474600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9780141397788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Celebrates the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.


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By: R. D. Blackmore

ISBN: 9780143039327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Ridd is a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones.


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By: Lisa Riley

ISBN: 9780241349120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 12th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Nicci French

ISBN: 9780141035413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe.

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