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By: Patrick Kavanagh
ISBN: 9780141184203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching.
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By: Sue Townsend
ISBN: 9780141046433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy.
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By: R. K. Narayan
ISBN: 9780143039648
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist guide, but now a peasant mistakes him for a holy man. Gradually he begins to play the part. He succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's new holiness to the test.
(Paperback)
By: P. J. Tracy
ISBN: 9781405936026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Mike Woodhouse
ISBN: 9780241357248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Professor A J P Taylor
ISBN: 9780140134988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1990
UK Publication Date: 27th September 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population.
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By: Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN: 9780140236347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1996
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book features figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband's decaying body; the 'heroically fertile' Maria Theresa; and, the Maximilian, 'Emperor' of Mexico.
The Half Burnt House: The spine-tingling new thriller from the bestselling author of The Whisper Man
(Hardback)
By: Alex North
ISBN: 9780241438121
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Tomas Transtrmer
ISBN: 9780241362822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Robert Ferguson
ISBN: 9780141017754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Takes us on a journey to a misty region inhabited by Hallfred the Troublesome Poet, Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Hairy-Breeches, Ivar the Boneless and Eyvind the Plagiarist, in which literature, history and myth dissolve into one another.
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By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780241284650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Oswald
ISBN: 9781405913188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A young man is found hanging by a rope in his Edinburgh home. A simple, sad suicide, yet Detective Inspector Tony McLean is puzzled by the curious suicide note. A second hanged man and another strange note hint at a sinister pattern.
(Paperback)
By: David Flynn
ISBN: 9780241471449
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: David Flynn
ISBN: 9781844883523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features recipes for everything from everyday breakfasts, lunches and dinners. This title share the tips for maximizing taste and goodness in food, and explain how they've succeeded in building a food business based on flavour, health and community.
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By: Alex Grecian
ISBN: 9781405915083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 18th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The spectre of Jack the Ripper still haunts Inspector Walter Day, his injured leg a daily reminder of his violent brush with London's most feared killer. He alone is convinced that the Ripper remains at large. But, worse is to come for Scotland Yard's Murder Squad. A new killer is terrorizing the citizens of London.
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By: Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780241339503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: M. R. James
ISBN: 9780143039921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Antiquarian Paxton travels to a small town on the coast of Norfolk and learns of a legend concerning three crowns buried on the coast thousands of years ago to protect the land against marauding Vikings. Paxton tries to find the remaining crown, unaware of the supernatural presence that protects it.
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141394091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realizes how sheltered his upbringing has been.
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By: Leonora Carrington
ISBN: 9780141187990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos and birthday cakes.
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By: Gervase Phinn
ISBN: 9780141027678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Awkward teachers, pompous school governors and fearsome lollipop ladies occasionally make the author's hectic job as a school inspector more than difficult. But, for him, the main challenge remains the frankly spoken children. This title tells his story.
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By: Kate Riordan
ISBN: 9781405922623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Giorgio Bassani
ISBN: 9780141192147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Hilary Boyd
ISBN: 9781405943925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Prebble
ISBN: 9780140028379
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1982
UK Publication Date: 31st May 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Offering a reconstruction of Culloden, the author recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation.
