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By: Saul David
ISBN: 9780141005553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This title shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her empire.
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By: James Holland
ISBN: 9780718187293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Holland
ISBN: 9780718187286
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jesse Byock
ISBN: 9780140291155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defense forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. This book brings together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas.
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By: Laurie Lee
ISBN: 9780241243671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Charlotte Bront
ISBN: 9780141199887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her complex feelings, first for school's English doctor and then for dictatorial professor.
Vince and Joy: The unforgettable bestseller from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
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By: Lisa Jewell
ISBN: 9780141012186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From teenage love in an eighties holiday park to flatshares, relationships, career crises and children, Vince and Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined.
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Virtual Light: A biting tehno-thriller from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Neuromancer
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By: William Gibson
ISBN: 9780241953501
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Chevette rides as a courier, banging her paper laminate-framed bike through the streets of a future Frisco - she lives for it. On an impulse, she's risked everything; stolen a pair of sunglasses from some jerk. No ordinary shades, either: loaded with super-sensitive data, they could decide the destiny of the entire city.
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141198224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an examination of the author's own New York life. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals a portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another.
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By: Professor R F Foster
ISBN: 9780241954249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. This title deals with argumentative, exciting, subversive and original lives of people who made a revolution, as well as the disillusionment in which it ended.
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By: Tracy K. Smith
ISBN: 9780141987842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Bryan Magee
ISBN: 9780140295191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. This title places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and offers a comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer.
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By: Allen Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780141399027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Containing more than a hundred poems, accompanied by original photographs, and spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, this book focuses on the sprawling oeuvre.
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141189468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A biography of the founder of Buddhism and a study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. It recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. It offers an introduction to the world of Buddhism.
(Hardback)
By: Donald Walker
ISBN: 9780241349168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Clare Balding
ISBN: 9780241959770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features British Adventures. In this book, the author shares the (mis)adventures with her family and her wayward Tibetan terrier Archie.
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By: Giovanna Fletcher
ISBN: 9781405926126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: P. J. Tracy
ISBN: 9781405915649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of detectives scramble to stop a sickeningly inventive serial killer striking again in a city paralysed by fear.
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By: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9781405933193
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 10th August 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Phillips Payson O'Brien
ISBN: 9780241744031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
ISBN: 9780141992037
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Linda Polman
ISBN: 9780670919772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over are locked in a cycle of mutual support. This title introduces us to the key players in this twisted game, to the aid-workers and the warlords themselves.
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By: Karel Capek
ISBN: 9780241343456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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