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By: Lee Elliot Major
ISBN: 9780241317020
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Peter Trudgill
ISBN: 9780140289213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. Ranging from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics, this work surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. It is suitable for sociolinguistics.
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780141397641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, this book details the final plea of author's beloved mentor.
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By: James Salter
ISBN: 9780141189581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Rand's passion is climbing - mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. Not intending it, he becomes suddenly famous for a daring rescue in the Alps. This novel reveals what happens when passion is spent and what becomes of heroes
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By: Giovanna Fletcher
ISBN: 9781405932660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141191270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features essays that look at the joys of spring, the picture of humanity and more.
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By: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780241955703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a collection dark and sinister adult stories, in which, a wife serves a dish that baffles the police; a harmless bet suddenly becomes anything but; a curious machine reveals a horrifying truth about plants; and a man lies awake waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach.
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By: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780141189642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes eighteen tales of the macabre.
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By: Kyril Bonfiglioli
ISBN: 9780241970270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charlie Mortdecai - minor aristocrat and art-dealer banished from London for crimes against, well, art - has decamped to the tiny island of Jersey with his wife Johanna and manservant Jock. There, amidst tax dodgers and inbred natives, he had hoped to lie low, and sink lower.
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By: Lyn MacDonald
ISBN: 9780241952382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. This title tells this history.
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By: Adonis
ISBN: 9780241483558
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780141199856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines.
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By: Ann Marie Hourihane
ISBN: 9781844885244
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Emma Noyes
ISBN: 9780241683873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sir Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780141015866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible How did Shakespeare's plays lead to the deaths of an earl and a king And why was he the one dramatist of his generation never to be imprisoned This book helps you to understand what being Shakespeare was actually like.
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By: Gerald Brenan
ISBN: 9780141189321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Between 1920 and 1934, the author lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen. This book depicts his time there, evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. It portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, village customs, superstitions and characters.
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By: Ernest Shackleton
ISBN: 9780241251096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Antoine Saint-Exupery
ISBN: 9780141183749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 27th July 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features novels including "Southern Mail" and "Night Flight" that evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable.
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By: Jean Franco
ISBN: 9780140025002
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1973
UK Publication Date: 26th July 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of eight short stories. It gives the reader an insight into the differences between the literary cultures.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Gudie Lawaetz
ISBN: 9780140033786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1992
UK Publication Date: 25th May 1972
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contains diverse writing from the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world. It includes notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases and is suitable for English students of the language as well as Spanish-speaking students of English.
(Hardback)
By: Leo Varadkar
ISBN: 9781844886937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Nick Gold
ISBN: 9780241468173
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Marisha Pessl
ISBN: 9780141024325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free.
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By: Sue Perkins
ISBN: 9781405918558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Answers questions such as 'Is Mary Berry real', 'Is it true you wear a surgical truss' and 'Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the observed motion of large objects such as galactic clusters in the universe'
