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Sister Jesme
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• Author(s): Sister Jesme • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury Press • BISAC: GeneralOn 31 August 2008, Sister Jesme left the Congregation of Mother of Carmel. The authorities repeated attempts to have her declare...
View full detailsIn The Country Of Deceit
Shashi Deshpande
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• Author(s): Shashi Deshpande • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Romance - ContemporaryDevayani chooses to live alone in the small town of Rajnur after her parents’ death, ignoring the gently voiced disapprov...
View full detailsThe Candy Machine
Tom Feiling
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• Author(s): Tom Feiling • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCutting through the myths about the white market, Tome Feiling's The Candy Machine is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before. Gabrielle unw...
View full detailsThe Secret Life of Birds
Colin Tudge
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• Author(s): Colin Tudge • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdColin Tudge explores the life of birds, all around the globe. From the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats ...
View full detailsDevil's Brood
Sharon Penman
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• Author(s): Sharon Penman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Devil's Brood' has at its heart the implosion of a family, a story of devastating betrayal as King Henry II's three eldest sons and his wife Eleanor ...
View full detailsThe Next Moon
Ewen Southby-Tailyour
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• Author(s): Ewen Southby-Tailyour • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAndre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German s...
View full detailsMost Secret War
R.V. Jones
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• Author(s): R.V. Jones • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
The Cruel Sea
Nicholas Monsarrat
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• Author(s): Nicholas Monsarrat • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBased on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to prote...
View full detailsEastern Approaches
Fitzroy MaClean
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• Author(s): Fitzroy MaClean • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought wi...
View full detailsPanzer Leader
Heinz Guderian
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• Author(s): Heinz Guderian • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHeinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 193...
View full detailsThe Cretan Runner
George Psychoundakis
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• Author(s): George Psychoundakis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joi...
View full detailsAnd the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Jack Kerouac
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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe legendary unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of...
View full detailsUnbordered Memories
Rita Kothari
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• Author(s): Rita Kothari • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralIf Partition changed the lives of Sindhi Hindus who suffered the loss of home, language and culture, and felt unwanted in their new homeland...
View full detailsSome Inner Fury
Kamala Markandaya
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• Author(s): Kamala Markandaya • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralKamala Markandaya’s Some Inner Fury is the story of Mirabai, a young woman from a partly Westernized Hindu family in pre-Independent In...
View full detailsLadybird Homework Helpers: Times Tables for School
Frank Waters
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• Author(s): Frank Waters • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis handy reference book lists all the times tables from 1-12. With number pattern grids and word meanings, this book includes everything a child need...
View full detailsLadybird Homework Helpers: Spelling for School
M.-Marsel (Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Northwestern University School of Medicine) Mesulam
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• Author(s): M.-Marsel (Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Northwestern University School of Medicine) Mesulam • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis reference book lis...
View full detailsLadybird Homework Helpers: Grammar and Punctuation for School
Liz Haslam
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• Author(s): Liz Haslam • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is a useful support for homework and gives a variety of suggestions to encourage good writing. The book contains key grammar and punctuation facts, ...
View full detailsGhost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux
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• Author(s): Paul Theroux • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdStarting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and ...
View full detailsGig
Simon Armitage
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• Author(s): Simon Armitage • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core.
Masters and Commanders
Andrew Roberts
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• Author(s): Andrew Roberts • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAndrew Roberts's Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses who led the West to Victory in WWII tells the story of how four great leaders fought e...
View full detailsPhysics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku
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• Author(s): Michio Kaku • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Physics of the Impossible' takes us on a journey to the frontiers of science and beyond, giving us an insight into what we can really hope to achieve i...
View full detailsDevil May Care
Sebastian Faulks
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• Author(s): Sebastian Faulks • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdM has summoned agent 007 to London. It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Go...
View full detailsThe First Person and Other Stories
Ali Smith
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• Author(s): Ali Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The First Person and Other Stories' effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and fu...
View full detailsPresence
Patsy Rodenburg
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• Author(s): Patsy Rodenburg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPatsy Rodenburg has discovered that there are three basic ways human energy moves between people. In the second of these 'circles', you are focused,...
View full detailsWhy Read the Classics?
Italo Calvino
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• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this collection of 36 essays, Italo Calvino explores the definition of what is classic literature, and surveys works that range from early modern E...
View full detailsThe Road to San Giovanni
Italo Calvino
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• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis collection of autobiographical essays range from a lyrical portrait of the author's relationship with his father to a perceptive essay on his own...
View full detailsUnder the Jaguar Sun
Italo Calvino
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• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn these three witty and fantastical stories, Italo Calvino explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell.
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
Italo Calvino
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• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet on the Ligurian coast during World War 2, 'The Path to the Spiders' Nest' tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice who lives with his sister...
View full detailsNumbers in the Dark
Italo Calvino
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• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Numbers in the Dark' is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenage...
View full detailsFantastic Tales
Italo Calvino
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• Author(s): Italo Calvino • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom tales of fabulous enchantments and supernatural horror to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of 19th century fantastic literature is c...
View full detailsJourney into Fear
Eric Ambler
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• Author(s): Eric Ambler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt is 1939 and the war in Europe has begun. On a freighter, somewhere in the Mediterranean, a man returning to England is being followed by German agent...
View full detailsEpitaph for a Spy
Eric Ambler
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• Author(s): Eric Ambler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJosef Vadassy decides to break his journey from Nice to Paris at the coastal town of St Gatien. His nightmare begins when a film he takes to the chemist...
View full detailsCause for Alarm
Eric Ambler
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• Author(s): Eric Ambler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMarlow travelled to Milan to work at a time when political consciousness was raw & uncompromising. He left sooner than he'd intended. The firm he wo...
View full detailsThe Mask of Dimitrios
Eric Ambler
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• Author(s): Eric Ambler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt all began so simply, Dimitrios Makropoulos was dead. Except that nothing Latimer could do helped to stop the nagging feeling that something was not r...
View full detailsUncommon Danger
Eric Ambler
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• Author(s): Eric Ambler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Kenton travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria. Stranded with...
View full detailsPenguin's Poems by Heart
Laura Barber
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• Author(s): Laura Barber • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLearning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favour as part of the educational system. This small collection ...
View full detailsThe Circle Of Reason 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: LiteraryThe Circle Of Reason is a novel that documents the life of young Alu, who is a weaver by profession. His life takes a drastic turn when the...
View full detailsA Fraction Of The Whole
Steve Toltz
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• Author(s): Steve Toltz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom the Australian bush to the cafes of Paris; from the highs of first love to the lows of failed ambition, this is an unforgettable, rollicking and de...
View full detailsThe Partnership
Charles D. Ellis
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• Author(s): Charles D. Ellis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCharles D. Ellis reveals the key events and decisions that tell the colourful, character-driven story of how Goldman Sachs became what it is today.
The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle are the complete adventures of the original and best detective, containing four novels...
View full detailsThe Chosen
Chaim Potok
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• Author(s): Chaim Potok • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOut of a baseball game that nearly becomes a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from a strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound ...
View full detailsMy Name is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok
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• Author(s): Chaim Potok • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAsher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion'. Into it he poured all the torment a Jew feels when torn betw...
View full detailsThe Enchanter
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe dark corners of the soul are laid bare, when, in order to justify his erotic obessesion with a pre-pubescent young girl, a middle-aged jeweller...
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Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mar...
View full detailsSo Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Jane Campion
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• Author(s): Jane Campion • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSo Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne is a testament to the love that inspired the passion and creativity of one...
View full detailsTeach Yourself To Think
Edward de Bono
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• Author(s): Edward de Bono • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Until it's Over
Nicci French
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• Author(s): Nicci French • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPeggy Farrell accidentally knocks London cycle courier Astrid Bell off her bike - and is then found bludgeoned to death in an alley. A few days later, ...
View full detailsThe Rose Tattoo and Other Plays
Tennessee Williams
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• Author(s): Tennessee Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes such dramas as The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, and Orpheus Descending.
The Price
Arthur Miller
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• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdVictor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. When his brother Walter arrive...
View full detailsAfter the Fall
Arthur Miller
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• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdQuentin is a successful lawyer, but he is struggling with a sense of guilt about past relationships, particularly his marriage to the charming and bea...
View full detailsIncident at Vichy
Arthur Miller
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• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Incident at Vichy' is a play that takes place in 1942. The characters in the play await their fate as the authorities interrogate them, whether they ...
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Arthur Miller
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• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman...
View full detailsThe Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
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• Author(s): Tennessee Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAbandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gent...
View full detailsA Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
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• Author(s): Tennessee Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her si...
View full detailsCat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
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• Author(s): Tennessee Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. His two sons have returned hom...
View full detailsThe Craftsman
Richard Sennett
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• Author(s): Richard Sennett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis text presents a philosophically-minded enquiry into the idea of craftsmanship. It is divided into three parts: addressing the craftsman at work...
View full detailsGang Leader for a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh
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• Author(s): Sudhir Venkatesh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade living with the Black Kings gang in Chicago's south side. His research later became famous in 'Freakono...
View full detailsMaggie Cassidy
Jack Kerouac
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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMaggie Cassidy tells the story of Jean and Maggie, a couple of girls in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and tr...
View full detailsMake Room! Make Room!
Harry Harrison
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• Author(s): Harry Harrison • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the crime and is captivated by the vic...
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