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Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus
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• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFour of these stories are set on the shimmering desert fringes of the author's native Algeria, and all of them first appeared in 1957, the year when he...
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Ali Smith
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• Author(s): Ali Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Accidental is Ali Smith's dazzling novel about a family holiday and a stranger who upends it. Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the N...
View full detailsEverything Bad is Good for You
Steven Johnson
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• Author(s): Steven Johnson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPopular culture is often described as nothing more than the production of endless entertainment. But, here, Steven Johnson puts forward a radical alt...
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Richard Dawkins
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• Author(s): Richard Dawkins • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchmaker features a unique biomorph. No two covers ar...
View full detailsA Death in the Family
James Agee
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• Author(s): James Agee • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOn a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turn out to be ...
View full detailsLet Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee
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• Author(s): James Agee • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn the summer of 1936, the authors set out on assignment for 'Fortune' magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. This is a recor...
View full detailsThe History of Love
Nicole Krauss
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• Author(s): Nicole Krauss • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the a...
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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 detailsTruth: A Guide for the Perplexed
Simon Blackburn
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• Author(s): Simon Blackburn • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSimon Blackburn looks at relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, exploring the mora...
View full detailsI Know You Got Soul
Jeremy Clarkson
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• Author(s): Jeremy Clarkson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have 'soul'. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Cl...
View full detailsLost World of Hindustani Music
Kumar Prasad Mukherji
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• Author(s): Kumar Prasad Mukherji • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury Press???Kudrat teri rang-birangee! Oh many-splendoured Creation!' So went the bhajan Ustad Abdul Karim Khan sang before the saint Tajuddin Ba...
View full detailsFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
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• Author(s): Stephen J. Dubner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHow can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their m...
View full detailsCall it Sleep
Henry Roth
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• Author(s): Henry Roth • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRoth traces the steps of David Schearl, a little boy who comes to New York with his Jewish parents at the turn of the century, and is exposed to the horr...
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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 detailsFortress Besieged
Qian Zhongshu
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• Author(s): Qian Zhongshu • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, this work recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly study...
View full detailsOleander, Jacaranda
Penelope Lively
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• Author(s): Penelope Lively • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA look at Egypt up to, & including, World War II from a small girl's point of view, this work is a picture of an isolated & lonely little gi...
View full detailsThe Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark
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• Author(s): Muriel Spark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDescribed as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller, published with an ...
View full detailsThe Ballad of Peckham Rye
Muriel Spark
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• Author(s): Muriel Spark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds...
View full detailsMy God Died Young
Sasthi Bose
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• Author(s): Sasthi Bose • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
Night Of The Dark Tree
Abraham Eraly
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• Author(s): Abraham Eraly • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralPresents a story about the remarkable women who counterpoint Zeruba's tormented life, - Laxmi, a beautiful gifted but illiterate slum girl,...
View full detailsSingapore Burning
Colin Smith
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• Author(s): Colin Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdChurchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indi...
View full details1776
David McCullough
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• Author(s): David McCullough • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. '1776' tells the stories of how a group of squabbling, disparate colo...
View full detailsSunstart Readers: Guess What?
Jane Hwang Degenhardt
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• Author(s): Jane Hwang Degenhardt • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Sunstart Readers: I Wish
Paul Taylor
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• Author(s): Paul Taylor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
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• Author(s): Wallace Stegner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdConfined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving ci...
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John Clellon Holmes
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• Author(s): John Clellon Holmes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDescribing the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neil Cassidy, 'Go' is the first and most accurate chronicle of the beat generation befo...
View full detailsWarped Passages
Lisa Randall
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• Author(s): Lisa Randall • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Warped Passages' is an essential and accessible introduction to the science of the future. Lisa Randall has pushed back the boundaries of science and ...
View full detailsThe Corfu Trilogy
Gerald Durrell
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• Author(s): Gerald Durrell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe trilogy that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells. Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals...
View full detailsI, Claudius
Robert Graves
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• Author(s): Robert Graves • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clar...
View full detailsClaudius the God
Robert Graves
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• Author(s): Robert Graves • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdContinuing the saga begun in I, Claudius, Robert Graves's Claudius the God is a compelling fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor, published wit...
View full detailsCampo Santo
W. G. Sebald
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• Author(s): W. G. Sebald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCampo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald When W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection...
View full detailsNew and Collected Poems 1931-2001
Czeslaw Milosz
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• Author(s): Czeslaw Milosz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is the authoritative edition of the work of one of the world's greatest living poets. This volume brings together a selection of Miosz's poetry ...
View full detailsKhartoum
Michael Asher
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• Author(s): Michael Asher • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the ma...
View full detailsA Wayne in a Manger
Gervase Phinn
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• Author(s): Gervase Phinn • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA Wayne in a Manger is the hilarious compilation of nativity stories by Gervase Phinn. Discover some wonderfully funny and touching nativity play anec...
View full detailsReal Fast Food
Nigel Slater
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• Author(s): Nigel Slater • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNigel Slater presents over 350 recipes and suggestions for those who would rather spend more of their time eating than cooking. From simple snacks to d...
View full detailsThe 30-Minute Cook
Nigel Slater
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• Author(s): Nigel Slater • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDiscover quick and tasty dishes in Nigel Slater's The 30-Minute Cook. Quick, delicious meals from across the world with ingredients available from your...
View full detailsHomo Faber
Max Frisch
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• Author(s): Max Frisch • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Homo Faber' tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in a rational, calculated world. Strange events undermin...
View full detailsDon't You Have Time to Think?
Richard P Feynman
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• Author(s): Richard P Feynman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRichard Feynman was one of the most inspirational men of our times. He won the Nobel Prize, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints, cracked sa...
View full detailsWhatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Paul Arden
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• Author(s): Paul Arden • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe bestselling author of It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be Paul Arden turns logic and common sense on its head in Whatever You Thi...
View full detailsLibra
Don DeLillo
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• Author(s): Don DeLillo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 'Libra', DeLillo turns back to the double event that fixed death most intimately in the collective minds of America - the assassination of John Kenne...
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Don DeLillo
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• Author(s): Don DeLillo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHis first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodime...
View full detailsRagtime
E. L. Doctorow
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• Author(s): E. L. Doctorow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWelcome to America at the turn of the 20th century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. In this original chronicle of the period, real-life ch...
View full detailsThe Book of Daniel
E. L. Doctorow
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• Author(s): E. L. Doctorow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAs Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides...
View full detailsParallel Worlds
Michio Kaku
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• Author(s): Michio Kaku • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGetting a grip on the creation and ultimate fate of the universe is one of the great scientific stories of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first, t...
View full detailsThings Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Things Fall Apart' tells the story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first on the scene. Okonkwo becomes...
View full detailsThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering p...
View full detailsLolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionPoet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by 12 year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically. This ...
View full detailsOf Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
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• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdStreetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing ex...
View full detailsThe Penguin Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud
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• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
White Tiger
Rohini Chowdhury
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• Author(s): Rohini Chowdhury • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Etc.This work tells a tale of a man-eating tigress, a ghost tiger and three children in a thrilling forest ad...
View full detailsThe Legends Of Pensam
Mamang Dai
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• Author(s): Mamang Dai • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralLike any other place on earth, the territory of the Adis in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh is 'Pensam' - the 'in-between' place. Featuring...
View full detailsSelected Poems
Geoffrey Hill
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Hill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis first selection of Geoffrey Hill's poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
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• Author(s): Linton Kwesi Johnson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed fr...
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David Bach
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• Author(s): David Bach • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdProvides advice for those who've asked themselves 'Why didn't I start saving when I was younger?' This work shows how you can transform your finances wit...
View full detailsRabbit, Run
John Updike
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• Author(s): John Updike • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt's 1959 and Harry Rabbit Angstrom, high school sports star turned MagiPeel Kitchen demonstrator, is going nowhere. His only escape is into the arms of...
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
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• Author(s): Ryszard Kapuscinski • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhile Ethiopia collapsed around him in 1975, Kapuscinski listened to stories of the recently dead Supreme Emperor Haile Selassie by the servants...
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
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• Author(s): Ryszard Kapuscinski • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDepicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It...
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John Updike
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• Author(s): John Updike • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHarry Angstrom looks enviously at the young players skipping across the basketball pitch and wonders whether he should take his doctor's advice and not ...
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