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By: Spike Milligan

ISBN: 9780241958124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an account of author's time in the army during World War Two that begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect it's not insured').


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By: Peter Kropotkin

ISBN: 9780241355336
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A 1902 collection of essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Originally published in "The Nineteenth Century" from 1890 to 1896, the essays examine mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocity in both animal and human societies.


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By: Clare Balding

ISBN: 9780241959756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen.


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By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ISBN: 9780141397627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a selection of personal correspondence between author and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.


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By: Jay Rayner

ISBN: 9780241973479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An ebook filled with accounts of twenty restaurants - their chefs, their owners, their poor benighted front of house staff.


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By: William S. Burroughs

ISBN: 9780141189895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book of dreams that cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with the author's friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary.


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By: Alfred Hayes

ISBN: 9780241342305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alan Lerner

ISBN: 9780140013641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1975
UK Publication Date: 27th March 1975
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When overbearing Professor Higgins stumbles on flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in Covent Garden he recognizes that her hideous vowels and forgotten consonants are all that separate her from the upper classes. Higgins wagers that he can pass her off as a Duchess in a matter of weeks. But what will become of Eliza when the bet is over


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By: Alistair Wood

ISBN: 9780241726358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pre-order this unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage . . .


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141042596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of stories from the author's final years.


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By: Marian Keyes

ISBN: 9780241441145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Georges Simenon

ISBN: 9780241206393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A small time crook has been murdered on an Mediterranean island--a thug, drunk, pimp and thief--yet just before he died he was heard boasting about his friend Maigret! Maigret, who is mentoring Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Pyke, travels to sun-drenched Porquerolles Island to investigate.


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By: Gyrgy Faludy

ISBN: 9780141193205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, the author journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover. When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to North Africa, then on to America, where he volunteers for military service. Missing his homeland and determined to do the right thing, he returns - only to be imprisoned.


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By: Catherine Alliott

ISBN: 9781405913928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For better or worse... Ella was nineteen and madly in love when she married dashing young artist Sebastian Montclair. But that was a long time ago. Now Ella and the kids live in a ramshackle farmhouse while Sebastian and his paintings inhabit the outhouse next door - a family separated in every way but distance.


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By: Roberto Saviano

ISBN: 9781846147043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Fidel Castro

ISBN: 9780141026268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Castro is the only world leader to have outlasted nine US presidents, has survived over 600 assassination attempts and remains one of the twentieth century's most controversial figures. This title tells Castro's story, explaining thing from his parents and earliest influences to his imprisonment, guerrilla war and the Cuban revolution.


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By: Benjamin Spall

ISBN: 9780241315415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chaim Potok

ISBN: 9780141190563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational "Brooklyn Crucifixion". Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here he plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.


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By: Chaim Potok

ISBN: 9780140036428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1974
UK Publication Date: 25th April 1974
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Asher Lev is the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion.' Into it her poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.


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By: Kit de Waal

ISBN: 9781405977920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Matthew Richardson

ISBN: 9781405924795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Frank O'Connor

ISBN: 9780141187877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her affections.


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By: Patrizia Cavalli

ISBN: 9780141987880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sally Morgan

ISBN: 9780141038490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sally Morgan is an ordinary woman with an extraordinary gift: she can communicate with the dead. Her first psychic experience was when she heard voices when she was just nine months old. She saw her first ghost when she was five. This title tells her story.

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