(Paperback)
By: Steven Runciman
ISBN: 9780141985503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Steven Runciman
ISBN: 9780241298763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Peter Mansfield
ISBN: 9780141988467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
While the struggle for peace in the Middle East remains one of the greatest challenges facing the world today, here is a fascinating and meticulously researched history of the region. In this masterful work, Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the volatile Middle East, creating a revealing political and social portrait.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Neil MacGregor
ISBN: 9780241951774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and also features objects which characterise the world we live in today.
(Paperback)
By: Jerry Brotton
ISBN: 9780141034935
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
Examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery. This title recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world.
(Paperback)
By: John Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9780241953044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
Tells the story of Venice of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the busiest and powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon in 1797.
(Paperback)
By: Sylvain Neuvel
ISBN: 9781405945530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9780241145869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
(Paperback)
By: Amanda Lindhout
ISBN: 9780670920860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
Presents the dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity - an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.
(Paperback)
By: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9780140437850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of its streets suspiciously empty and some overwhelmingly full of the sounds and smells of human suffering.
(Paperback)
By: Barry Hines
ISBN: 9780141184982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk.
(Paperback)
By: Barry Hines
ISBN: 9780241978962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Gytha Lodge
ISBN: 9781405947053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Gytha Lodge
ISBN: 9780241471012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Eric Ambler
ISBN: 9780241606179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Stacia Stark
ISBN: 9781405967693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241981610
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780241974834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
ISBN: 9780141995793
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Rosanna Pike
ISBN: 9780241646069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Noam Chomsky
ISBN: 9781405974233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Meghan Quinn
ISBN: 9781405955829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Emma Morgan
ISBN: 9780241984680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Georges Simenon
ISBN: 9780241356746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
First published in French as Un Noel de Maigret, 1951.
