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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141188553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141188546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1969, the times are changing in America. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, into his confused life comes Jill, a runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail.


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141187839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job.


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By: Kalwant Bhopal

ISBN: 9780241537336
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: E. L. Doctorow

ISBN: 9780141188171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J P Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines.


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By: J. D. Salinger

ISBN: 9780241950463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a collection of two novellas.


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By: Ryunosuke Akutagawa

ISBN: 9780143039846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. This work features stories such as "Rashomon", "In a Bamboo Grove", "The Nose", "O-Gin", "Loyalty", "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears".


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By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Matt Shore is a pilot down on his luck. Once he'd flown big jets and dropped supplies in war zones. Now he's ferrying high-class passengers between English race courses. But when one eventful trip ends with his plane exploding, Matt knows he's not that unlucky. When the police confirm it was a bomb, Matt realises he has a problem.


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By: Al Pittampalli

ISBN: 9780241209059
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. This book features eight principles which offers a way to have fewer, shorter, more purposeful meetings.


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By: Nigel Slater

ISBN: 9780141029498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The roast potato that sticks to the roasting tin; the crouton from the salad that has soaked up the mustardy dressing ...these are the things that make something worth eating. And worth cooking. This title features recipes that are not about making fancy stocks and sauces. It uses the best quality ingredients to make food that is a joy to eat.


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By: Nigel Slater

ISBN: 9780141029504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents over 350 creative, delicious and nourishing recipes and suggestions for those who'd rather spend more of their time eating than cooking. From simple snacks to dinner-party desserts, this title features dishes that can be ready to eat in 30 minutes or under.


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By: Nigel Slater

ISBN: 9781405913508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents over 350 creative, delicious and nourishing recipes and suggestions for those who'd rather spend more of their time eating than cooking.


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By: Nigel Slater

ISBN: 9780141029511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a collection of quick and delicious puddings made with simple and fresh ingredients. This title also includes ideas for irresistible desserts all of which can be prepared in under half an hour.


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By: David Shields

ISBN: 9780141049076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up the old culture in search of something new and more authentic, it is the most vital book of the new century.


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By: Susan Sontag

ISBN: 9780141045191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born.


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By: Sue Townsend

ISBN: 9780718194833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.


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By: Gerd Gigerenzer

ISBN: 9780140297867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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However much we want certainty in our lives, it feels as if we live in an uncertain and dangerous world. But are we guilty of exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us Are we misled by our ignorance of the reality of risk This title illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Urban

ISBN: 9780241558171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Grant Naylor

ISBN: 9780140174663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1993
UK Publication Date: 9th November 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This omnibus contains the books Red Dwarf and Better than Life. Lister goes on a pub crawl around London to celebrate his birthday, and ends up three million years from Earth. He is joined by a hologram, a senile computer, a deranged mechanoid and the best-dressed entity Cat abroad the Red Dwarf.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Ali Fenwick

ISBN: 9780241653685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dr Ali Fenwick

ISBN: 9780241653692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Catherine Merridale

ISBN: 9780141032351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Winner of the Wolfson Prize 2013 and Herald Books of the Year 2014, this book revels in both the drama of the Kremlin and its sheer unexpectedness: an impregnable fortress which has repeatedly been devastated, a symbol of all that is Russian substantially created by Italians.


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By: Laurie Lee

ISBN: 9780241953273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long.


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By: Bernard Cornwell

ISBN: 9780241955628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war. Here ruthless Captain Kit Vane and beautiful Martha Crowl, passionate patriot Caroline and her idealist young lover Jonathon, unscrupulous Ezra Woollard and the brutal Sergeant Scammell, forge and break shifting allegiances that drive them to dangerous lengths.

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