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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Bohumil Hrabal
ISBN: 9780241290224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stella Gibbons
ISBN: 9780241418895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.
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By: Kingsley Amis
ISBN: 9780141194219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Laurie Lee
ISBN: 9780241625170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141192260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and love.
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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780141193748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With encyclopedic knowledge, this title writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. It provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the magination.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141185699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny.
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By: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780241400401
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9780141197388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.
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By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241301197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Milovan Djilas
ISBN: 9780141393094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describes the key members of Stalin's court: Beria, Malenkov, Zhukov, Molotov and Khruschchev.
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By: Chester Himes
ISBN: 9780241521090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Con man Deak O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime. The $87,000 he has schemed to get has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are on everyone's trail in one of their most entertaining thrillers.
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By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
ISBN: 9780241649541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Maryse Cond
ISBN: 9780241530054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Wallace Stegner
ISBN: 9780141394954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English department at the University of Wisconsin.
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By: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780141188775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When his induction into the army is delayed, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. This journal presents an account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780241308493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Willa Cather
ISBN: 9780241338261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241678947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780141182742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence, and a scathing indictment of the ultimate failure...
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By: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780241505335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141180908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingenue abroad in the razzmatazz of Twenties high society.
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By: Anas Nin
ISBN: 9780141182841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.
