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By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780241963319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement; and produced an illegitimate daughter.
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By: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
ISBN: 9780141397726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling - Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927).
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By: Lee Evans
ISBN: 9780718156190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 10th May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye. But he was not always such a roaring success. This title presents his life story.
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141391519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ronald Knox - priest, classicist, prolific writer and one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The renowned Oxford chaplain was a friend of figures such as G K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, and was known for his caustic wit and spiritual wisdom. This title presents his portrait.
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By: Helen Pearson
ISBN: 9780141976617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Mimi Matthews
ISBN: 9781405958257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Keri Smith
ISBN: 9780141982298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Bohumil Hrabal
ISBN: 9780241290248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kate Eastham
ISBN: 9781405936606
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Brian Johnson
ISBN: 9780241446409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Phoebe Luckhurst
ISBN: 9781405949521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Charles Nicholl
ISBN: 9780141023748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life-story. This book focuses on this episode in Shakespeare's life.
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141186078
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941.
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By: Kiran Desai
ISBN: 9780241770825
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sam Selvon
ISBN: 9780141188416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 27th July 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes.
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By: Lesley Pearse
ISBN: 9780241453209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Aoife Moore
ISBN: 9780241993781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: David Gilmour
ISBN: 9780141990880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141185514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of short stories, set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world. This book includes the tales: The Murderer and The Chrysanthemums.
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By: Brendan Simms
ISBN: 9780141979267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. This book tells their story and recaptures the fear, chaos and chanciness of battle and uses various eye-witness reports.
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By: Sue Townsend
ISBN: 9780241959398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Monday January 3, 2000. So how do I greet the New Millennium In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother... I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head... Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world.
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141184241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
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By: K. L. Slater
ISBN: 9780241678466
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141185989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence.
