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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction
J. D. Salinger
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• Author(s): J. D. Salinger • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTwo long short stories first published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters' and 'Seymour, An Introduction' are each...
View full detailsListening to Grasshoppers
Arundhati Roy
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• Author(s): Arundhati Roy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationali...
View full detailsDreams In Prussian Blue
Paritosh Uttam
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• Author(s): Paritosh Uttam • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Metro Read • BISAC: Non-Classifiable
A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd
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• Author(s): William Boyd • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD'Uproariously funny' Observer_________________________Overweight, oversexe...
View full detailsThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton
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• Author(s): Alain de Botton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEqually intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fi...
View full detailsThe Idle Parent
Tom Hodgkinson
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• Author(s): Tom Hodgkinson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Idle Parent is Tom Hodgkinson's radical parenting remedy against stifled, mollycoddled children. Modern life is wrecking childhood. Why can't we ...
View full detailsA View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller
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• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEddie Carbone is a straightforward man with a strong sense of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins. But, as his niece beg...
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John Wyndham
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• Author(s): John Wyndham • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMatthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that ...
View full detailsWhat to Do When Someone Dies
Nicci French
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• Author(s): Nicci French • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhat do you do when your husband dies suddenly in a car accident? How should you react when you learn a mystery woman was by his side? Where do you tur...
View full detailsImmediate Response
Mark Hammond
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• Author(s): Mark Hammond • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe gripping true story of a Royal Marine helicopter pilot at war in Afghanistan. Major Mark Hammond was awarded the DFC, which ranks third after the V...
View full detailsThe Defence of the Realm
Christopher Andrew
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• Author(s): Christopher Andrew • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The New Confessions
William Boyd
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• Author(s): William Boyd • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of ...
View full detailsStars and Bars
William Boyd
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• Author(s): William Boyd • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAll Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited ho...
View full detailsThe Orwell Diaries
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGeorge Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from ...
View full detailsJangalnama Travels In A Maoist Guerilla Zone
Satnam
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• Author(s): Satnam • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Military - StrategyThe profound insights offered in Jangalnama are the result of Satnam’s close observation of the guerillas and adivasis of Bastar.—Vara...
View full detailsHackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Iain Sinclair
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• Author(s): Iain Sinclair • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs 'As detailed and as complex as a historical map,...
View full detailsHitler
Ian Kershaw
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• Author(s): Ian Kershaw • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNow available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, ...
View full detailsJustice
Michael J. (Author) Sandel
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• Author(s): Michael J. (Author) Sandel • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIs killing sometimes morally required? Is the free market fair? It is sometimes wrong to tell the truth? What is justice, and what does i...
View full detailsThe Reading Group
Elizabeth Noble
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Noble • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA glass of wine, a gossip, and a good book - 'The Reading Group' is born. Its members are as different as the books they read. But each woman has se...
View full detailsGo-Givers Sell More
Bob Burg
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• Author(s): Bob Burg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is the sequel to 'The Go-Giver', applying its inspirational approach to real-world challenges. The authors demonstrate that it is more effective when ...
View full detailsThe House of Fear
Ibn-E Safi
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• Author(s): Ibn-E Safi • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: PenguinDetective Imran, a mastermind chief in the secret service, solves mysteries and defeats enemies in Urdu cult classic Imran series by spy-novelist Ibn-e Safi. I...
View full detailsPossession
Kamala Markandaya
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• Author(s): Kamala Markandaya • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General‘Caroline thinks Valmiki belongs to her . . . People don’t easily give up what they think are their possessions. The English never have...
View full detailsDancing In Cambodia And Other Essays From Bestselling Author And Winner Of The 2018 Jnanpith Award
Amitav Ghosh
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• Author(s): Amitav Ghosh • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: EssaysThrough extraordinary first-hand accounts Amitav Ghosh presents a compelling chronicle of the turmoil of our times. `Dancing in Cambodia’ rec...
View full detailsThe Last Narco
Malcolm Beith
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• Author(s): Malcolm Beith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMexico, April 2009. The bodies of pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the ro...
View full detailsWhy Britain is at War
Harold Nicolson
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• Author(s): Harold Nicolson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First publish...
View full detailsThe Black Cloud
Fred Hoyle
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• Author(s): Fred Hoyle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that ...
View full detailsThe Death of Ayrton Senna
Richard Williams
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• Author(s): Richard Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe best book ever written about the legendary driver, now a major documentary. 'For the casual racing fan it's a mighty good read, for the Senna f...
View full detailsEating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
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• Author(s): Jonathan Safran Foer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Inheritance of Rome
Chris Wickham
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• Author(s): Chris Wickham • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often ...
View full detailsDead Aid
Dambisa Moyo
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• Author(s): Dambisa Moyo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Dead Aid' analyses the history of economic development over the last 50 years and shows how aid crowds out financial and social capital and directly c...
View full detailsThe Vanishing Face of Gaia
James Lovelock
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• Author(s): James Lovelock • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJames Lovelock's The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning is a prophetic message for mankind from one of the most influential scientists of our ag...
View full detailsStrangers
Anita Brookner
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• Author(s): Anita Brookner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances...
View full detailsThe Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAvoiding culinary jargon and complicated, time-consuming processes, Jamie Oliver has created a repertoire of simple, feisty recipes which combine bold ...
View full detailsThe Return of the Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJamie Oliver's bestselling book presents a wide range of dishes - snacks, salads and dressings, pasta, soups, seafood, meat, stocks and sauces, dessert...
View full detailsHappy Days with the Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJamie Oliver is one of Britain's best-loved chefs; he has made cooking interesting and accessible. He believes in getting the most out of ingredients a...
View full detailsJamie's Kitchen
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJamie Oliver set up a restaurant called Fifteen, a training school for young chefs. This guide features the recipes from Jamie's cookery course as well...
View full detailsJamie's Italy
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 'Jamie's Italy' Oliver travels around Italy paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result...
View full detailsFaith
Lesley Pearse
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• Author(s): Lesley Pearse • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdScotland, 1995. On the hills of Cornton Vale Prison. She was convicted of killing her best friend . . . Laura Brannigan has been put away for murder. ...
View full detailsThe Divided Self
R. D. Laing
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• Author(s): R. D. Laing • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHis groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, R.D. Laing's The Divided Self illuminated the nature mental illness, making the mysteries of th...
View full detailsAlone in Berlin
Hans Fallada
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• Author(s): Hans Fallada • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBerlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their differ...
View full detailsOver to You
Roald Dahl
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• Author(s): Roald Dahl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDuring the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own experien...
View full detailsCities of the Red Night
William S. Burroughs
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• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn opium addict is lost in th jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the wor...
View full detailsThe Western Lands
William S. Burroughs
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• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBlending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and Mailer.'The Western Lands' confirms William S. Burroughs status as one of America...
View full detailsNo Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe
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• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOki Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil se...
View full detailsArrow of God
Chinua Achebe
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• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSpare and powerful, 'Arrow of God' is an unforgettable portrayal of the loss of faith, and the struggle between tradition and change.
Monkey-man
Ruth (Professor of Labour Law, Professor of Labour Law, University of Glasgow) Dukes
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• Author(s): Ruth (Professor of Labour Law, Professor of Labour Law, University of Glasgow) Dukes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd3 January 2000. It is the start of the new millennium. On Ammanagudi Street in ...
View full detailsParadise And Other Stories
Khushwant Singh
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• Author(s): Khushwant Singh • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
Europe's Tragedy
Peter H. Wilson
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• Author(s): Peter H. Wilson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011 The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) to...
View full detailsThe Idea of Justice
Amartya, FBA Sen
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• Author(s): Amartya, FBA Sen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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• Author(s): Andrew Ross Sorkin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Secret State
Peter Hennessy
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• Author(s): Peter Hennessy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPeter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from ...
View full detailsWhat They Teach You at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton
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• Author(s): Philip Delves Broughton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Plague
Albert Camus
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• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Plague by Albert Camus is an extraordinary odyssey into the darkness and absurdity of human existence. 'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerge...
View full detailsFlappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEncompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Ja...
View full detailsWe the Living
Ayn Rand
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• Author(s): Ayn Rand • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Outsider
Albert Camus
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• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know' Meursault is different...
View full detailsThe Storm of War
Andrew Roberts
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• Author(s): Andrew Roberts • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest sing...
View full detailsPerfume
Patrick Suskind
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• Author(s): Patrick Suskind • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBorn in sweaty, fetid 18th-century Paris, Grenouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's an...
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Peter Ackroyd
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• Author(s): Peter Ackroyd • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man wi...
View full detailsLatecomers
Anita Brookner
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• Author(s): Anita Brookner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a stran...
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