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Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow
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• Author(s): Scott Turow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, ...
View full detailsThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEnthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is...
View full detailsThe Decay of Lying: And Other Essays
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations ...
View full detailsThe Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spiri...
View full detailsNothing . . . Except My Genius: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'I have nothing to declare, ' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and wa...
View full detailsThe Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd
Geoffrey Chaucer
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 'The Canterbury Tales', Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral a...
View full detailsSecrets
Lesley Pearse
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• Author(s): Lesley Pearse • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt's 1930, and Secrets tells the tale of one girl caught in a family mystery, a struggle against cruelty, and a quest for love . . . This is just ...
View full detailsRemember Me
Lesley Pearse
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• Author(s): Lesley Pearse • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBased on a true story, Remember Me brings Mary Broad vividly to life in this moving story of a woman triumphing against overwhelming odds. She made on...
View full detailsTeam of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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• Author(s): Doris Kearns Goodwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She show...
View full detailsLahs 1 : Begin To Write Bk 1
Prhi Editorial
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• Author(s): Prhi Editorial • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: Concepts - General
Add And Take Away
Prhi Editorial
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• Author(s): Prhi Editorial • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: Concepts - Counting & Numbers
On Kindness
Barbara Taylor
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• Author(s): Barbara Taylor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdToday many people seem to find the pleasures of kindness literally incredible. Instead of embracing the benefits of altruism, as a species we seem to...
View full detailsThe Penguin Dictionary of Jokes
Fred Metcalf
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• Author(s): Fred Metcalf • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLooking for a good joke? Searching for an ice-breaker for that after-dinner speech? Or are you just in need of a few laughs? Then stop Your search is ...
View full detailsRenaissance
Oliver Bowden
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• Author(s): Oliver Bowden • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Assassin's Creed: Renaissance is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. 'I will seek Vengeance upon those who betra...
View full detailsMemories Of Life In Lhasa Under Chinese
Tubten Khetsun
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• Author(s): Tubten Khetsun • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Personal MemoirsBorn in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner aft...
View full detailsTravelling Heroes
Robin Lane Fox
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• Author(s): Robin Lane Fox • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRobin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how ...
View full detailsOne-Way Street and Other Writings
Walter Benjamin
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• Author(s): Walter Benjamin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWalter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century...
View full detailsAny Human Heart
William Boyd
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• Author(s): William Boyd • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Superb, wonderful, enjoyable' Guardian 'Full of delights' The Times _____________________________ Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, an...
View full detailsArmadillo
William Boyd
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• Author(s): William Boyd • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does kn...
View full detailsThe Prophecy
Chris Kuzneski
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• Author(s): Chris Kuzneski • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen the prophetic writings of the 16th century apothecary Nostradamus begin to ring alarmingly true, Payne and Jones find themselves in a life-or-de...
View full detailsLuck Stories
Dhruba Hazarika
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• Author(s): Dhruba Hazarika • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General‘Absorbing, spare and often deeply moving.’—Ruskin Bond ‘Wild tales with a difference…Hazarika’s empathy with all creatures great and sma...
View full detailsAn Indian For All Seasons
Meenakshi Mukherjee
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• Author(s): Meenakshi Mukherjee • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralThis rich biography, coinciding with his death centenary, illuminates the remarkable journey of Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848–1909) situa...
View full detailsNo One Writes To The Colonel
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinIn a decaying Colombian town the Colonel and his ailing wife are living a hand-to-mouth existence, scraping together the money for food and medicin...
View full detailsStillborn: A Medical Thriller
Rohini Nilekani
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• Author(s): Rohini Nilekani • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
The Watchmaker
Nanak Singh
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• Author(s): Nanak Singh • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralThe first-ever English translation of the Punjabi classic by Nanak Singh Kedar, orphaned and penniless, comes to Rawalpindi in search of a jo...
View full detailsA Silence Of Desire
Kamala Markandaya
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• Author(s): Kamala Markandaya • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General‘He was not himself because his wife was not herself, because in marriage you acted and reacted one upon the other, however much you wi...
View full detailsThe Hour Before Dawn
Bhabendra Nath Saikia
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• Author(s): Bhabendra Nath Saikia • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General‘A rare glimpse of Assamese society, portrayed with deep understanding and love by a master craftsman’—Mamoni Raisom Goswami, accla...
View full detailsMaudiegirl
Carl Muller
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• Author(s): Carl Muller • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralNobody—and the whole of Boteju Land agreed—could cook like Maudiegirl. She wielded a wizard’s wand not only in the kitchen but also over dome...
View full detailsWhy I Supported The Emergency
Khushwant Singh
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• Author(s): Khushwant Singh • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Viking • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThe Emergency has become a synonym for obscenity. Even men and women who were pillars of Emergency rule and ...
View full detailsEssays and Letters
Friedrich Holderlin
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• Author(s): Friedrich Holderlin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and p...
View full detailsThe Language of Things
Deyan Sudjic
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• Author(s): Deyan Sudjic • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn The Language of Things Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationship with them,...
View full detailsTao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
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• Author(s): Lao Tzu • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the Tao Te Ching is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility. Ranging fr...
View full detailsUtopia
Thomas More
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• Author(s): Thomas More • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no p...
View full detailsWritings from the Zen Masters
Various
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• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThese are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs...
View full detailsOn Solitude
Michel de Montaigne
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• Author(s): Michel de Montaigne • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBlending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay...
View full detailsOf the Abuse of Words
John Locke
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• Author(s): John Locke • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJohn Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. Thes...
View full detailsAn Apology for Idlers
Robert Louis Stevenson
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• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air),...
View full detailsWhy Look at Animals?
John Berger
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• Author(s): John Berger • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJohn Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationshi...
View full detailsInterzone
William S. Burroughs
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• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Interzone' portrays the development of Burroughs' mature writing style. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades o...
View full detailsMy Education
William S. Burroughs
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• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDreams have always been a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' work. Exploring and embodying Burroughs' provocative ideas on writing, painting,...
View full detailsThe Cat Inside
William S. Burroughs
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• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBoth heartwarming and meditative, this book explores not only the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats, but the deeper relationship...
View full detailsDecline of the English Murder
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of th...
View full detailsThe Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
Arthur Schopenhauer
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• Author(s): Arthur Schopenhauer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and ...
View full detailsJourney To Ithaca
Anita Desai
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• Author(s): Anita Desai • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Literary
The Middleman
Mani Sankar Mukherji
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• Author(s): Mani Sankar Mukherji • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Urban1970s . The city is teeming with thousands of young men in search of work. Somnath Banerjee spends his days queuing up at the employme...
View full detailsThe Qur'an
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• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Qur'an is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammmad by the Angel Gabriel nearly 1400 years ago. But above ...
View full detailsMoscow Rules
Daniel Silva
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• Author(s): Daniel Silva • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. But this is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash ...
View full detailsJohnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
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• Author(s): Dalton Trumbo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJoe, a young American soldier in the Great War, lies helpless in hospital, so horrifically injured he cannot communicate with the outside world. Trapp...
View full detailsThe Scent of Dried Roses
Tim Lott
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• Author(s): Tim Lott • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The Scent of Dried Roses' is Tim Lott's moving and disturbing personal inquest into the death of his mother. Why did she kill herself? What had he, her so...
View full detailsBook Of Krishna
Pavan K Varma
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• Author(s): Pavan K Varma • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ananda
Someone Like You
Roald Dahl
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• Author(s): Roald Dahl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdVendettas and desperate quests, bitter memories and sordid fantasies thwarted - here are 18 reasons why Roald Dahl is the master of the short story.
In Defence of Food
Michael Pollan
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• Author(s): Michael Pollan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMichael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and our palates...
View full detailsNotes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller
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• Author(s): Zoe Heller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Notes on a Scandal' is a sinister lesson in keeping your friends close and your enemies even closer. When Sheba Hart is discovered having an affair with...
View full detailsA Fatal Inversion
Barbara Vine
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• Author(s): Barbara Vine • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine 'An absolute winner ... a gripping read from start to end' Daily Mail 'Bril...
View full detailsTarka the Otter
Henry Williamson
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• Author(s): Henry Williamson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch fish - and to fear the cry of the...
View full detailsThe Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels
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• Author(s): Friedrich Engels • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWritten when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explo...
View full detailsWatch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses
Stephen Davis
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• Author(s): Stephen Davis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn his sixth major rock biography, Stephen Davis details the riveting story of Guns n' Roses, a band that originated in the gutters of Sunset Strip an...
View full detailsBrazzaville Beach
William Boyd
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• Author(s): William Boyd • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights' Financial Times _____...
View full detailsOutliers
Malcolm Gladwell
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• Author(s): Malcolm Gladwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhy are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In thi...
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