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By: Paul Bowles
ISBN: 9780141191386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip becomes prolonged and they grow dependent on their new acquaintances, an undercurrent of cruelty begins to disturb the comfort to which they are accustomed.
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By: Gervase Phinn
ISBN: 9780141011318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Life for the Gervase Phinn is about to become not unlike the rambling hills of the Dales themselves - up and down and all over the place. After a routine school inspection - and a rather brutal report - culminates with a teacher being forced into early retirement, Gervase is left feeling his year hasn't exactly begun on the right foot.
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By: Booker T. Washington
ISBN: 9780140390513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An autobiography that presents nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
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By: William Morris
ISBN: 9780141036700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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By: Clive Cussler
ISBN: 9781405916226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sabotage, conspiracy and piracy in the air, and below the waves, finds Dirk Pitt plunged into his most dangerous adventure yet. When the luxury cruise lined Emerald Dolphin - powered by a revolutionary new propulsion system - becomes a raging inferno and sinks mysteriously.
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By: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780241567753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9780141199641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George.
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By: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141198217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the author's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship.
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By: Martin Vargic
ISBN: 9780718185268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Marina Lewycka
ISBN: 9780141044941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. So when Doro and Marcus spring a surprise on their kids the family is forced to confront some thorny truths about themselves...
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By: Javier Maras
ISBN: 9780241248874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Emma Medrano
ISBN: 9780241703588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th July 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Emma Rosenblum
ISBN: 9781405955966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jane Ridley
ISBN: 9780141987316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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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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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By: Niall Ferguson
ISBN: 9780241952252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940 What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union How would England look if there had been no Cromwell What if there had been no American Revolution And what if John F Kennedy had lived This book deals with these questions.
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.
