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Hitler's Empire
Mark Mazower
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• Author(s): Mark Mazower • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Hitler's Empire' charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from those economists who dreamed of turning Europe into a huge market for Ge...
View full detailsThe Boy with the Topknot
Sathnam Sanghera
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• Author(s): Sathnam Sanghera • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom Hindu hairdressers to the Wolverhampton tourist office, from terrifying violence to boundless family loyalty, this is the heart-rending accoun...
View full detailsBlonde Roots
Bernardine Evaristo
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• Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdImagine if the Transatlantic slave trade was reversed. Imagine Africans the masters and Europeans their slaves. Now meet young Doris, living in ...
View full detailsAmazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys
Neil Oliver
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• Author(s): Neil Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe French Foreign Legion at Camerone, Scott of the Antarctic, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Mirbat, the Gloster's Last Stand: full of courage, a...
View full detailsSoul of the Age
Sir Jonathan Bate
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• Author(s): Sir Jonathan Bate • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWeaving a tapestry of Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues, Jonathan Bate leads us on a tour of the intell...
View full detailsConnemara
Tim Robinson
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• Author(s): Tim Robinson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-def...
View full detailsKaiser Wilhelm II
Christopher Clark
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• Author(s): Christopher Clark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdChristopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th century's most importan...
View full detailsThe Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
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• Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power a...
View full detailsThe Pity of War
Niall Ferguson
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• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMore than any other event, World War I made the 20th century what it has been. Now as the 20th century draws to a close, 80 years after the armistice...
View full detailsThe War of the World
Niall Ferguson
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• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe 20th century proved to be violent, frightening and brutalized with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbre...
View full detailsColossus
Niall Ferguson
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• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIs America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, th...
View full detailsChasing the Flame
Samantha Power
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• Author(s): Samantha Power • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Chasing the Flame' tells the life story of a remarkable man. Sergio Vieira de Mello was born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking...
View full detailsCommon Wealth
Jeffrey Sachs
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Sachs • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne of the world's most famous and influential economists, Jeffery Sachs, addresses our most urgent concerns. He argues that the global economic syste...
View full detailsThe Winter House
Nicci Gerrard
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• Author(s): Nicci Gerrard • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Marnie receives a phone call that summons her to the side of a once-beloved friend, she is wrenched from her orderly London life and sent back in...
View full detailsAll My Sons
Arthur Miller
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• Author(s): Arthur Miller • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn the Keller family garden, an apple tree, a memorial to their soldier son, has been torn down by a storm. It's not the only tragedy the family can't...
View full detailsCollected Stories
Paul Bowles
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• Author(s): Paul Bowles • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn these hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment and vengeance, extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place s...
View full detailsThe Spider's House
Paul Bowles
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• Author(s): Paul Bowles • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt is 1954. The Moroccan city of Fez rests on a knife-edge as the indigenous resistance movement agitates ever more violently against French colonial ru...
View full detailsUp Above the World
Paul Bowles
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• Author(s): Paul Bowles • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young...
View full detailsStupid Cupid
Mamang Dai
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• Author(s): Mamang Dai • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
The Third Reich at War
Richard J. Evans
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• Author(s): Richard J. Evans • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRichard J. Evans's masterly history of Nazi Germany traces the rise & fall of German military might, against the background of the mobilization...
View full detailsMan's Fate
Andre Malraux
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• Author(s): Andre Malraux • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn explosive story of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency and free will.
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays
Tennessee Williams
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• Author(s): Tennessee Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLoneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against pers...
View full detailsSuddenly Last Summer and Other Plays
Tennessee Williams
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• Author(s): Tennessee Williams • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThese three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret.
Jamie's America
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJamie Oliver travels round the USA in search of the perfect ingredients. Along the way, Jamie gets his hands dirty: meeting hunters, cowboys, fishermen...
View full detailsThe Sartorialist (The Sartorialist Volume 1)
Arne Sierens
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• Author(s): Arne Sierens • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdScott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people on the street who looked great. His now famous blog 'the bellwether American site that turned ...
View full detailsIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAs a cancer patient in the 1970s, Susan Sontag wrote 'Illness as a Metaphor' to show how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especia...
View full detailsCompany of Liars
Karen Maitland
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• Author(s): Karen Maitland • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMidsummer's Day, 1348. On this day of ill omen, plague makes its entrance. While panic and suspicion flood the land, a small band of travellers comes...
View full detailsHowl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
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• Author(s): Allen Ginsberg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBeat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This collection brings together the poem...
View full detailsLondon Belongs to Me
Norman Collins
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• Author(s): Norman Collins • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAlso known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second World...
View full detailsCook with Jamie
Jamie Oliver
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• Author(s): Jamie Oliver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJamie Oliver helps you learn the skills that the trainees at Jamie's Fifteen restaurant learn during their first year, from basic techniques to advice ...
View full detailsWaste
Tristram Stuart
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• Author(s): Tristram Stuart • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe world has a 'food problem' - rapidly rising prices, shortages, 100 million people starving, environmental depredation - or it thinks it does. Th...
View full detailsChocky
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 detailsStyles of Radical Will
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is Susan Sontag's second collection of essays. They extend the investigations she undertool in 'Against Interpretation' with essays on film, liter...
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Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThis is a selection from Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, 'On Style and Note...
View full detailsUnder the Sign of Saturn
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this third collection of essays, the author discusses the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together her most importan...
View full detailsThe Benefactor
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, 'The Benefactor' leads us on a kind of psychic grand tour, in which Hippolyte's violen...
View full detailsIn America
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a 'utopian' commune. The commune fails, howe...
View full detailsThe Volcano Lover
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA historical romance novel based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the 18th century. Passion...
View full detailsWhere the Stress Falls
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis work records Susan Sontag's urgent engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late 20th century, and provides ...
View full detailsThe Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow
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• Author(s): Leonard Mlodinow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1905 Albert Einstein published a shocking explanation of Brownian Motion, the random movement of particles, likening it to the kind you would ob...
View full detailsMao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin
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• Author(s): Li Cunxin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLi Cunxin tells his story, tracing his life from his early childhood among the Chinese peasantry and his being thrust into the world of ballet, through hi...
View full detailsThe Death of Grass
John Christopher
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• Author(s): John Christopher • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA thought experiment in future-shock survivalism' Robert MacFarlane 'Gripping ... of all science fiction's apocalypses, this is one of the most hau...
View full detailsA History of Histories
John Burrow
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• Author(s): John Burrow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTreating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Bur...
View full detailsThe New Black
Darian Leader
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• Author(s): Darian Leader • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe New Black is Darian Leader's compassionate and illuminating exploration of melancholy What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separa...
View full detailsYour Inner Fish
Neil Shubin
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• Author(s): Neil Shubin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHave you ever wondered why our bodies look and work and fail the way they do? 'Your Inner Fish' is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey ou...
View full detailsHow NOT to Write a Novel
Howard Mittelmark
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• Author(s): Howard Mittelmark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark have distilled 30 years of teaching, editing, writing and reviewing fiction into a hilarious and liberating gu...
View full detailsThe English Assassin
Daniel Silva
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• Author(s): Daniel Silva • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdArt restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an old master for a millionaire banker. But when he arrives,...
View full detailsLiberal Fascism
Jonah Goldberg
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• Author(s): Jonah Goldberg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe author destroys long-held myths on fascism to reveal why the most insidious attempts to control our lives originate from the left. Journeying thr...
View full detailsChild of All Nations
Irmgard Keun
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• Author(s): Irmgard Keun • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: ClassicsKully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that ca...
View full detailsMother Tongue
Bill Bryson
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• Author(s): Bill Bryson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPacked with fascinating facts on the English language, 'Mother Tongue' is an entertaining and didactic investigation of the influence and distribution o...
View full detailsTroublesome Words
Bill Bryson
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• Author(s): Bill Bryson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhat is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Tro...
View full detailsReborn
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Reborn' is a self-portrait of writer and intellectual Susan Sontag. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with t...
View full detailsThe Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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• Author(s): Shirley Jackson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHill House stood abandoned, six miles off the road. Four people came to learn its secrets - Dr Montague, an occult scholar; Luke, a spendthrift heir...
View full detailsWe Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
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• Author(s): Shirley Jackson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMerricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods until a fatal...
View full detailsThe Uses of Literacy
Richard Hoggart
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• Author(s): Richard Hoggart • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop cu...
View full detailsA New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
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• Author(s): Eckhart Tolle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEckhart Tolle draws on essential spiritual teachings of all ages and traditions to reveal a fresh evolutionary model of spiritual life for the 21st ce...
View full detailsBaby Touch Playbook
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• Author(s): No Author • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Children BooksTouching is one of the ways babies learn about the world around them. This is a board book you can play with: feel the different textures and holes; lif...
View full detailsTrying To Grow
Firdaus Kanga
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• Author(s): Firdaus Kanga • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralBrit Kotwal breaks his legs eleven times before he is five years old. His teeth crumble and chip if he tries to bite into anything. It was ...
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