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By: Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780141184456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora.
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By: Dick Francis
ISBN: 9781405916721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jockey and amateur photographer Philip Nore knows all too well how it feels to take a tumble from a horse. He also knows what it's like to feel the wrath of furious owners and trainers. You can't always be a winner. George Millace hated winners. As a photographer he specialized in taking pictures that exposed the failings of riders.
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By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
ISBN: 9780140285345
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Reformation tore western world apart. In this title, the author re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars and politicians, from zealous Martin Luther nailing his Theses to door of a Wittenburg church to the radical Ignatius of Loyola.
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By: Alexander Betts
ISBN: 9780141984704
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141012377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
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By: Philippa Rice
ISBN: 9780241734575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th June 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Darragh McKeon
ISBN: 9780241996799
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141186399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Begins with an account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for "The Times".
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By: Aemilia Lanyer
ISBN: 9780140424096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, "Sweet Nosegay" (1573) and "The Copy of a Letter" (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with vernacular sources. As well a selection of her original poetry, this volume includes Mary Sidney's version of the Psalms of David and Petrach's "Triumph of Death".
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By: Peter Handke
ISBN: 9780241457689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Caelainn Hogan
ISBN: 9780241984123
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Boris Cyrulnik
ISBN: 9780141036151
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Many of us experience pain in our childhoods, and young people face trauma all over the world. How is it possible to recover Do those abused always go on to hurt others This book shows how the extraordinary power of resilience can heal damaged lives.
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By: Richard Sennett
ISBN: 9780141007564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. In this title, the author argues that many who are not able to achieve the demands of today's meritocracy lose the esteem that should be given to them.
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By: Lynsey Hanley
ISBN: 9780141040615
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780241198926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In an unidentified Latin American country, General Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive revolutionary leader. The rebel, known by various names, is rumoured to have performed miracles throughout the countryside.
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By: Pittacus Lore
ISBN: 9781405934282
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th December 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Oliver Bowden
ISBN: 9780241951736
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Older, wiser and deadly than ever, Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altair - a library that may hold the key to defeating the Templars for ever. However, a shocking discovery awaits him. The library holds no only a hidden knowledge but also the most unsettling secret the world has ever known.
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By: Elizabeth Buchan
ISBN: 9780140290080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect that Nathan, her husband of over twenty years, was having an affair, and that he was planning to leave her. But the greatest shock was yet to come; for his mistress was Rose's colleague and friend, Minty. Left alone in their once-happy family home, where she and Nathan had brought up their children.
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By: Vivian Tu
ISBN: 9780241644959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th December 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Thomas Asbridge
ISBN: 9780141989938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780140112955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 30th March 1989
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Paul Theroux left Victoria Station in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border. The reality, of course, was very different. In fact, Theroux experienced a decidedly odd and unexpected trip to China that set the challenging tone for his journey.
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By: Carol Anshaw
ISBN: 9780241392829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexander Watson
ISBN: 9780141042039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. This book shows the history of the Great War and the major events from the perspective of Berlin and Vienna.
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By: Maria Alyokhina
ISBN: 9780141986616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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