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Anita Rau Badami
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• Author(s): Anita Rau Badami • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
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Radhika Jha
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• Author(s): Radhika Jha • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralWhen her father is killed in a riot in Nairobi, Leela’s mother chooses to send her away to her childless aunt and uncle in Paris, while she h...
View full detailsEmergence
Steven Johnson
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• Author(s): Steven Johnson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis work argues that it is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down...
View full detailsThe Penguin Concise Thesaurus
David Pickering
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• Author(s): David Pickering • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Of Love and Hunger
Julian MacLaren-Ross
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• Author(s): Julian MacLaren-Ross • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two great books: the p...
View full detailsJesus Lived In India
Holger Kersten
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• Author(s): Holger Kersten • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Christian Theology - ChristologyHis unknown life before and after the crucifixion. Why has Christianity chosen to ignore its connections with the...
View full detailsBurmese Days
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBased on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes co...
View full detailsOrientalism
Edward D. Said
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• Author(s): Edward D. Said • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralNow reissued with a substantial new afterword, this highly acclaimed overview of Western attitudes towards the East has become one of the ...
View full detailsGods, Graves And Grandmother
Inge Brouns
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• Author(s): Inge Brouns • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Accidents Like Love Marriage
Jaishree Misra
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• Author(s): Jaishree Misra • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralAccidents like Love and Marriage is an unexpected romp through the universal dilemmas of love and marriage. It is a compelling tale of inc...
View full detailsThe Diary Of A Young Girl
Anne Frank
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• Author(s): Anne Frank • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: LettersIn July 1942, Anne Frank and her family fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Anne was thirteen w...
View full detailsThe Penguin Book Of Modern Indian Short Stories
Josheph S. Alter
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• Author(s): Josheph S. Alter • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General20 classic short stories from master writers across the country, this collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written ...
View full detailsAnother Country
James Baldwin
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• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAfter Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their fe...
View full detailsHitler 1889-1936
Ian Kershaw
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• Author(s): Ian Kershaw • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIan Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership. With e...
View full detailsHitler 1936-1945
Ian Kershaw
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• Author(s): Ian Kershaw • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of m...
View full detailsThe Annotated Alice
Lewis Carroll
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• Author(s): Lewis Carroll • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice...
View full detailsThe Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Anton Chekhov
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• Author(s): Anton Chekhov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWritten during Chekhov's late twenties and early thirties, these stories are the work of a young writer in dialogue with his masters: Tolstoy, Gogol, ...
View full detailsHenry and June
Anais Nin
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• Author(s): Anais Nin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDrawn from journals, this book offers an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with He...
View full detailsAnswered Prayers
Truman Capote
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• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdP B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answer...
View full detailsLaughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAlbinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette...
View full detailsOne-hit Wonder
Lisa Jewell
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• Author(s): Lisa Jewell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBea and Ana were half-sisters. But, since Bea left home when Ana was four, the two never really bonded. When Bea is found dead, Ana doesn't know what to...
View full detailsRural Rides
William Cobbett
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• Author(s): William Cobbett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
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• Author(s): Isak Dinesen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the ...
View full detailsThe Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
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• Author(s): John Galsworthy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy...
View full detailsDown and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGeorge Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the und...
View full detailsWinter's Tales
Isak Dinesen
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• Author(s): Isak Dinesen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIsak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen...
View full detailsThe Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
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• Author(s): John Galsworthy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan wi...
View full detailsThe Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
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• Author(s): John Galsworthy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries,...
View full detailsStranger
Satyajit Ray
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• Author(s): Satyajit Ray • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralA haunting collection of stories from the master of suspense and intrigue, this book showcases some of Satyajit Ray's memorable explorations...
View full detailsBass Culture
Lloyd (Author and contributor) Bradley
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• Author(s): Lloyd (Author and contributor) Bradley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development ...
View full detailsA Spy In The House Of Love
Anais Nin
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• Author(s): Anais Nin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant ou...
View full detailsU.S.a.
John Dos Passos
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• Author(s): John Dos Passos • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThrough the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, the author builds up a composite picture of American society in...
View full detailsUntouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
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• Author(s): Mulk Raj Anand • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
The Penguin History of Britain
Susan Brigden
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• Author(s): Susan Brigden • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNo period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost m...
View full detailsThe Lady in the Lake and Other Novels
Raymond Chandler
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• Author(s): Raymond Chandler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdContains the author's three Philip Marlowe novels, The Lady in the Lake, The High Window and The Little Sister.
The Captive Mind
Czeslaw Milosz
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• Author(s): Czeslaw Milosz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWritten in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created controversy in its analysis of 'modern' society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by so...
View full detailsAnother Day of Life
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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• Author(s): Ryszard Kapuscinski • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record o...
View full detailsToujours Provence
Peter Mayle
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• Author(s): Peter Mayle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDespite having already made a spectacle of himself in front of the locals, Peter Mayle tries to settle into the relaxed Provencal way of doing things. H...
View full detailsOrdinary Men
Christopher R Browning
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• Author(s): Christopher R Browning • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis detailed and harrowing study of a single group of mostly middle-aged policemen from provincial Germany has achieved classic status among...
View full detailsTender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdF. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in ...
View full detailsOfficers and Gentlemen
Evelyn Waugh
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• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGuy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have t...
View full detailsHow Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn
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• Author(s): Richard Llewellyn • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, publishe...
View full detailsThe Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
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• Author(s): Philip K. Dick • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War.
U.g.krishamurti
Mahesh Bhatt
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• Author(s): Mahesh Bhatt • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin
One World Divisible
DR David Reynolds
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• Author(s): DR David Reynolds • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe second half of the 20th century was dominated by the unfolding drama of the Cold War, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the Berlin Wall....
View full detailsThe Collected Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
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• Author(s): Dorothy Parker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent 1920S and 1930s in New York were a t...
View full detailsMen at Arms
Evelyn Waugh
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• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGuy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but n...
View full detailsThe Reprieve
Jean-Paul Sartre
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• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a wa...
View full detailsDecline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
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• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWith his distinctive dark wit, Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall is a masterful social satire sending up the social mores of 1920s England, edited with a...
View full detailsChristianity
David Chidester
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• Author(s): David Chidester • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492, Christianity was almost entirely European, Since that time, missionary work and colonial activities h...
View full detailsShakespeare's Language
Frank Kermode
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• Author(s): Frank Kermode • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished l...
View full detailsThe Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Jorge Luis Borges
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• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes the stories The Congress, Undr, The Mirror and the Mask, August 25, 1983, Blue Tigers, The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare's Memory.
A Universal History of Iniquity
Jorge Luis Borges
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• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is a collection of Borges' short stories, published in 1935 It includes colourful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world and the Wild Wes...
View full detailsThe Gift
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First Worl...
View full detailsNight Train
Nick Tosches
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• Author(s): Nick Tosches • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
English Passengers
Matthew Kneale
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• Author(s): Matthew Kneale • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents a vicar's ludicrous expedition in 1857 to the Garden of Eden in Tasmania.
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy
Gavin Maxwell
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• Author(s): Gavin Maxwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he named his...
View full detailsThe Diversity of Life
Edward O. Wilson
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• Author(s): Edward O. Wilson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTells the great story of how life on earth evolved. This work describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this div...
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Annie Hawes
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• Author(s): Annie Hawes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisi...
View full detailsFrench Country Cooking
Elizabeth David
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• Author(s): Elizabeth David • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrench Country Cooking - first published in 1951 - is filled with Elizabeth David's authentic recipes drawn from across the regions of France. 'Her ...
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