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• Author(s): Charles Palliser • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA novel set in 19th century England that deals with the varying fortunes of young John Huffam and his mother.

• Author(s): Charles Rycroft • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which together create a commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised...

• Author(s): Sharon Penman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdStephen was handsome, unreliable and beguiling. Maude was courageous, beautiful and insanely arrogant. They fought for twenty years and devastated Eng...

• Author(s): Jeremy Paxman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life Jeremy Paxman has created the perfect literary catch for fellow angling enthusiasts in this rich and varied a...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEvelyn Waugh's Mediterranean journal, Labels, was first published in 1930 and offers a highly entertaining portrait of the Englishman abroad.

• Author(s): Christopher Hibbert • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marve...

• Author(s): David Niven • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen...

• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny.

• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA series of 638 aphorisms and discourses on subjects ranging from art, arrogance and boredom to passion, science, vanity, women and youth. Nietz...

• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Matt Ridley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSex is a subject as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. From the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists a...

• Author(s): Anita Brookner • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinner of the Booker Prize 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent,...

• Author(s): Richard Du Cann • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Marion Zimmer Bradley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA tragic tale of the rise and fall of Camelot seen through the eyes of Camelot's women: the devout Gwenhwyfar, Arthur's Queen; Vivane, High pr...

• Author(s): Daniel C. Dennett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced w...

• Author(s): Donna Tartt • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thin...

• Author(s): Mr Isaac Asimov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTells the stories behind the science - the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Achimedes, Ne...

• Author(s): Barry Unsworth • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fo...

• Author(s): Charles Handy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOrganizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies. In this text, Charles Handy argues ...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this volume, Paul Davies reasons that the remarkable achievement of science in unlocking the secrets of nature points to a deeply significant link be...

• Author(s): Esther Freud • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTwo little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conve...

• Author(s): Adrian Desmond • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling...

• Author(s): Richard P Feynman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBased on the Messenger Lectures, given by the Nobel Prize-winner Feynman at Cornell and filmed by the BBC, this book explores the nature of the la...

• Author(s): Mark Tully • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIndia s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops . From that striking insight ...

• Author(s): Grant Naylor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHere are the first two novels of the cult series Red Dwarf in one volume - Red Dwarf and Better Than Life - plus the first draft of the original TV pil...

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWith no less than 240 puzzles, this is a seventh heaven for all crossword fans Most crosswords give you just one set of clues the Sun gives you two The coffee time clues are ...

• Author(s): Bruce Fogle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHow do dogs perceive the world about them? How do they see, hear, learn and relate to their owners? Why do they suffer from stress and anxiety, and how ...

• Author(s): Kahlil Gibran • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn inspirational, allegorical guide to living. 'The Prophet' is the most famous work of religious fiction in the twentieth century and had sold millio...

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is a revised edition of the existing Nuttall's Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms that is designed to help widen the reader's vocabulary. Lists of synonyms provide altern...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Ma...

• Author(s): Darrell Huff • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIntroduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or uninten...

• Author(s): Professor A J P Taylor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA.J.P. Taylor's bestselling The Origins of the Second World War overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular an...

• Author(s): Aaron T Beck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDescribes both theory and therapeutic techniques for anxiety neuroses, depressions, obsessions, phobias, and psychosomatic disorders and demonstrates t...

• Author(s): J E Gordon • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Architecture & Interior DesignsIn "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains th...

• Author(s): Yevgeny Zamyatin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAsylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, mona...

• Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionHaroun's father is the greatest storyteller. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs ou...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Galbraith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEconomic ideas are very much a product of their time and place. If we are to understand modern economics, we can do so only through an unders...

• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Luigi Barzini • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents a guided tour through centuries of history of Italy. This book examines Machiavelli and Mussolini, popes, pilgrims and prostitutes, cliques a...

• Author(s): Anthony Trollope • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThorne's brother seduced the sister of a Greshambury stonemason and was killed by him. Thorne adopts the child of this liaison, but keeps secret th...

• Author(s): J E Gordon • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhy isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? ...

• Author(s): John Holt • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe author sets out to deomonstrate to parents and teachers that learning is as natural as breathing. They ways we learn to talk, to read, to count and to...

• Author(s): David Thomson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFind out what the landscape, weather, transport, farming, food, shopping, houses, working life, festivals and having fun is like in Italy. This book i...

• Author(s): Clare Winnicott • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBrings together some of the author's works contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. This title includes essays that range in topi...

• Author(s): Alan Bullock • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe book covers the whole of Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and su...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn God and the New Physics, Paul Davies explains how science has come of age, and can now offer a surer path to divinity than religion. Science is now o...

• Author(s): Isak Dinesen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIsak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Bl...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built chu...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBetween 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit an...

• Author(s): J.L. Mackie • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents an insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. This title argues that our moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of ...

• Author(s): Andre Gide • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdShatters various images of Andre Gide as the querulous and impious Buddha to a quarter-century of intellectuals.

• Author(s): C.S. Forester • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn omnibus edition compromising of four C S Forester's classic seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower, namely: Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord H...

• Author(s): Robert Axelrod • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHow can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority...

• Author(s): George Polya • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of practical lessons that demonstrates how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle problems from unusual angles...

• Author(s): R. D. Laing • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 'The Politics of Experience' and the visionary 'Bird of Paradise', R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us all leads to int...

• Author(s): James M. McPherson • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: HistoryThis text presents a history of the American Civil War. It starts with an account of the years before the civil war and its causes - placing slavery f...

• Author(s): Carlos Castaneda • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFirst book in the Don Juan series. The author meets Don Juan and is introduced to his magical world and philosophy by means of hallucinogenic plant...

• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writin...