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Mad About Ponies
Titania Woods
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• Author(s): Titania Woods • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAre you mad about ponies? From breeds and brushes to markings and mucking out, this book is packed with fascinating facts and key information that wil...
View full detailsThe Art of War
Sun-tzu
Paperback
• Author(s): Sun-tzu • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdStill a source of inspiration for soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom 2000 years after it was written, Sun-Tzu's The Art of War is the...
View full detailsThe Dig
John Preston
Paperback
• Author(s): John Preston • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the wid...
View full detailsAround the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Paperback
• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established ro...
View full detailsSouth From Granada
Gerald Brenan
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• Author(s): Gerald Brenan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPart autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada includes an int...
View full detailsGranite Island
Dorothy Carrington
Paperback
• Author(s): Dorothy Carrington • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: General Books'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved, ' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the m...
View full detailsSniper One
Dan Mills
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• Author(s): Dan Mills • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Sgt. Dan Mills. '...
View full detailsSacred Games
Vikram Chandra
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• Author(s): Vikram Chandra • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralWINNER OF THE HUTCH CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD 2006 FOR BEST WORK IN ENGLISH FICTION Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of excep...
View full detailsPartitions
Kamleshwar
Paperback
• Author(s): Kamleshwar • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Black Classics • BISAC: GeneralSifts through the testimony of casualties from the killing fields of injustice at home and abroad, ranging from Kurukshetra to ...
View full detailsThe Untold Charminar
Syeda Imam
Paperback
• Author(s): Syeda Imam • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaHyderabad is a city that mixes cultures, cuisines, religions and languages.
The Stuff of Thought
Steven Pinker
Paperback
• Author(s): Steven Pinker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSteven Pinker analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. He shows how we use space a...
View full detailsSingled Out
Virginia Nicholson
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• Author(s): Virginia Nicholson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdVirginia Nicholson's Singled Out is the touching and beautifully told story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable gen...
View full detailsGirls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea
Paperback
• Author(s): Rajaa Alsanea • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Girls of Riyadh' captures the trials and tribulations of a middle-class society quite unlike our own and blows the lid off all our preconceptions of ...
View full detailsOn the Road: The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac
Paperback
• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'On the Road' swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Mor...
View full detailsBlack Mass
John Gray
Paperback
• Author(s): John Gray • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdUtopian ideologies of the last century rejected traditional faiths and claimed to be based in science. They were actually secular versions of the myth of ...
View full detailsThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
Paperback
• Author(s): Mohsin Hamid • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAt a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful ...
View full detailsPanic!
Michael Lewis
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• Author(s): Michael Lewis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hy...
View full detailsThe Whisperers
Orlando Figes
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• Author(s): Orlando Figes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDrawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure Stalin's tyranny,...
View full detailsThings I Want My Daughters to Know
Elizabeth Noble
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Noble • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without...
View full detailsThe Essential Einstein
Albert Einstein
Paperback
• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCollected here are Einstein's own illuminating writings on the theory of relativity, which present a world of paradoxes in which space is bent and t...
View full detailsNight
Elie Wiesel
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• Author(s): Elie Wiesel • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDescribing the tragic murder of people from a survivor's perspective, this book presents an account of the Holocaust. It offers a description of the eve...
View full detailsAnthem
Ayn Rand
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• Author(s): Ayn Rand • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEquality 7-2521 is a man apart. Since The Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet sinc...
View full detailsThen We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris
Paperback
• Author(s): Joshua Ferris • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Then We Came to the End' is about how we spend our days and too many of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about sharing a s...
View full detailsWorld War One
Norman Stone
Paperback
• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a furt...
View full detailsPenguin Pocket Sudoku
David J. Bodycombe
Paperback
• Author(s): David J. Bodycombe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British obsession. Here is...
View full detailsNehru A Contemporarys Estimate
Walter Crocker
Paperback
• Author(s): Walter Crocker • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Asia - India & South Asia
What is the What
Dave Eggers
Paperback
• Author(s): Dave Eggers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'What is the What' is an unflinching portrayal of the lives of two boys during the Sudanese civil war - one, at seven, too young to know what's happenin...
View full detailsThe Lodger
Charles Nicholl
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• Author(s): Charles Nicholl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The Lodger' is an original literary detective story, and an entirely new biographical take on Shakespeare's life, focusing on the years of his resi...
View full detailsThe Stone Gods
Jeanette Winterson
Paperback
• Author(s): Jeanette Winterson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOn the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edg...
View full detailsAnimal Farm
George Orwell
Paperback
• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRenowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's timeless satire 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' M...
View full details31 Dream Street
Lisa Jewell
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• Author(s): Lisa Jewell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn a rambling north London house, failed poet Toby Dobbs has created a refuge for people who need one. But when a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter ...
View full detailsByzantium
Judith Herrin
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• Author(s): Judith Herrin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFor a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now litt...
View full detailsAt the Same Time
Susan Sontag
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• Author(s): Susan Sontag • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'At the Same Time' gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Susan Sontag's life, which reflect on the personally liberating nature ...
View full detailsWhy is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Leszek Kolakowski
Paperback
• Author(s): Leszek Kolakowski • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCan nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible f...
View full detailsThe Last Tycoons
William D. Cohan
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• Author(s): William D. Cohan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThey amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything. This is the...
View full detailsA Tranquil Star
Primo Levi
Paperback
• Author(s): Primo Levi • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is a collection of stories, never translated into English before, by Primo Levi, one of the most enduring voices of the 20th century.
Three Cups Of Tea
Greg Mortenson
Paperback
• Author(s): Greg Mortenson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1993, after a terrifying & disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortensen drifted, cold & dehydrated, into an impover...
View full detailsThe Pursuit of Glory
Tim Blanning
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• Author(s): Tim Blanning • 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 Pursuit of Glory brings to life one ...
View full detailsFateful Choices
Ian Kershaw
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• Author(s): Ian Kershaw • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis title examines ten episodes at the heart of the Second World War where there was an immense range of options open to planners and decision-makers. ...
View full detailsThe Trouble with Physics
Lee Smolin
Paperback
• Author(s): Lee Smolin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics...
View full detailsThe Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Author(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The Black Swan' is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religio...
View full detailsMarry Me
John Updike
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• Author(s): John Updike • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSally Mathias is big and blonde, expensively dressed and married to Richard. He is a generous husband, but how much longer can he hold onto her?
The Cowife And Other Stories
Premchand
Paperback
• Author(s): Premchand • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralBrings together twenty tales of Premchand which provide a glimpse of the his range and diversity.
The Dunwich Horror
H. P. Lovecraft
Paperback
• Author(s): H. P. Lovecraft • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDeadly forces are about to be awakened ... In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatu...
View full detailsThe Psychedelic Experience
Richard Alpert
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• Author(s): Richard Alpert • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. The authors provide an interpretation of an ancie...
View full detailsScottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan
Gordon Jarvie
Paperback
• Author(s): Gordon Jarvie • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral traditio...
View full detailsRome and Jerusalem
Martin Goodman
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• Author(s): Martin Goodman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Martin Goodman explores the history of a titanic struggle whose repercussions are still fe...
View full detailsThe Ghost Map
Steven Johnson
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• Author(s): Steven Johnson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSteven Johnson takes the reader day by day through the cholera epidemic of 1854 - which would consume 50,000 lives in England and Wales - and recreat...
View full detailsThe Actual
Saul Bellow
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• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.
Ravelstein
Saul Bellow
Paperback
• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAbe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political w...
View full detailsThe Empty Space
Peter Brook
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• Author(s): Peter Brook • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAdapted from a series of four lectures, originally delivered as the first of the Granada Northern Lectures Peter Brook's The Empty Space is an explorati...
View full detailsCutouts Caste And Cines Stars
Vaasanthi
Paperback
• Author(s): Vaasanthi • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Civil Rights
About Me Apni Khabar
Pandey Bechan Sharma
Paperback
• Author(s): Pandey Bechan Sharma • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralA memoir, which reveals how Indian public debates on nationalism, morality, censorship, religion, caste, gender and sexuality are de...
View full detailsTravels with Herodotus
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Paperback
• Author(s): Ryszard Kapuscinski • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJust out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski, the novice reporter, told his editor he'd like to go abroad, dreaming no farther than Czechoslovaki...
View full detailsThe Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
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• Author(s): Naomi Klein • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe story of how countries are shocked - by wars, terror attacks, coup d'etats, economic crisis and natural disasters. And of how countries are then sho...
View full detailsMy Life
Fidel Castro
Paperback
• Author(s): Fidel Castro • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe acclaimed autobiography of Fidel Castro, one of the towering political figures of our age, who dominated both Cuba and the world stage for over hal...
View full detailsGifted
Nikita Lalwani
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• Author(s): Nikita Lalwani • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCardiff in the 1980's is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes prot...
View full detailsRegeneration
Pat Barker
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• Author(s): Pat Barker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection The modern classic of contemporary war fiction - a Man Booker Prize-nominated examination...
View full detailsThe Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
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• Author(s): Pat Barker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogy. WINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE. London, 1918. Billy Prio...
View full detailsThe Ghost Road
Pat Barker
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• Author(s): Pat Barker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Ghost Road is the final instalment in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. WINNER OF THE 1995 BOOKER PRIZE. 1918, the closing months of the war. Army p...
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