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James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners by James Joyce 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It ...
View full detailsVanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
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• Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 'Vanitas Vanitatum Which of us is happy in this world...
View full detailsA Zoo in My Luggage
Gerald Durrell
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• Author(s): Gerald Durrell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo . . . any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and ob...
View full detailsThe Golden Gate
Vikram Seth
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• Author(s): Vikram Seth • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralA brilliantly achieved novel written in verse.No more to say. They change. Unsleeping,On the same bed they lie apart(What terrifying miles), ...
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Tim Weaver
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• Author(s): Tim Weaver • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFor millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train...
View full detailsBared to You
Sylvia Day
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• Author(s): Sylvia Day • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGideon and Eva are two wounded souls who come together in an explosion of lust and passion as intoxicating as it is devastating.
The Powder Room: the Untold Story of Indian Fashion
Shefalee Vasudev
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• Author(s): Shefalee Vasudev • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin VikingAbout The Book Ever been intrigued by the Indian Fashion Industry—its stereotypes of drugged models, gay designers, and fascinating but unaffordab...
View full detailsZero Degrees of Empathy
Simon Baron-Cohen
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• Author(s): Simon Baron-Cohen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSimon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, puts empathy under the microscope in order to understand evil. Supported by...
View full detailsThe Riverside Villas Murder
Kingsley Amis
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• Author(s): Kingsley Amis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA crime, truly murderous, is committed by an unknown and almost unidentifiable assailant. Only Peter Furneaux begins to guess at the truth - a dangero...
View full detailsI Want It Now
Kingsley Amis
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• Author(s): Kingsley Amis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupie...
View full detailsThe Anti-Death League
Kingsley Amis
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• Author(s): Kingsley Amis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for de...
View full detailsThe Folks That Live On The Hill
Kingsley Amis
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• Author(s): Kingsley Amis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHarry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convival academic who devotes his life to others. When the Adams' Institute of Cultural a...
View full detailsBlue of Noon
Georges Bataille
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• Author(s): Georges Bataille • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThrough pre-war Europe, the narrator of this novel lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadi...
View full detailsMy Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
Georges Bataille
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• Author(s): Georges Bataille • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Moth...
View full detailsEroticism
Georges Bataille
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• Author(s): Georges Bataille • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Batai...
View full detailsLiterature and Evil
Georges Bataille
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• Author(s): Georges Bataille • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Literature is not innocent, ' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its comp...
View full detailsA Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman
Margaret Drabble
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• Author(s): Margaret Drabble • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMargaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades,...
View full detailsNew Maps of Hell
Kingsley Amis
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• Author(s): Kingsley Amis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writi...
View full detailsMrs Bridge
Evan S. Connell
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• Author(s): Evan S. Connell • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: English LiteratureEvan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. Hilarious and heartbrea...
View full detailsThe Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
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• Author(s): Anne Frank • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, 'The Diary of a Young Girl' stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to ...
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Anne Frank
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• Author(s): Anne Frank • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is the 70th anniversary edition. In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hidin...
View full detailsThe Kingdom
Clive Cussler
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• Author(s): Clive Cussler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe husband and wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people - until an investigator f...
View full detailsMilligan's Meaning of Life
Spike Milligan
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• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMilligan's Meaning of Life is a glorious celebration of the legendary Spike Milligan. Here you will find his most intimate and hilarious reflections ...
View full detailsThe Most Human Human
Brian Christian
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• Author(s): Brian Christian • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDrawing on science, philosophy, literature and the arts, and touching on aspects of life as diverse as language, work, school, chess, speed-dating, ...
View full detailsThe Essential Difference
Simon Baron-Cohen
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• Author(s): Simon Baron-Cohen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhy are female brains better at empathizing? How are male brains designed to analyse systems? What really makes men and women different? Simon Bar...
View full detailsBerlin Noir
Philip Kerr
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• Author(s): Philip Kerr • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTHE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER ' Philip Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian Rankin The first three in the Bernie...
View full detailsPocket Atlas of Remote Islands
Judith Schalansky
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• Author(s): Judith Schalansky • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBorn on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now she has created her o...
View full detailsInnovate Happily!: A Blueprint for Shangri-La, the High Happiness Quotient City
Rekha Shetty
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• Author(s): Rekha Shetty • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Portfolio • BISAC: MotivationalWhy should people be happy? How is the pursuit of happiness relevant to the corporate world? Studies show that happy people a...
View full detailsThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Bronte
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• Author(s): Anne Bronte • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bront 'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it' In this se...
View full detailsHowards End
E. M. Forster
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• Author(s): E. M. Forster • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ev...
View full detailsTwo on a Tower
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy 'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single sta...
View full detailsThe Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 'Shame, Despair, Solitude These had been her teachers, - stern...
View full detailsThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous...
View full detailsA History of the World in 100 Objects
Dr Neil (Director) MacGregor
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• Author(s): Dr Neil (Director) MacGregor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNeil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations t...
View full detailsThe Patchwork Marriage
Jane Green
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• Author(s): Jane Green • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Andi married Ethan she not only got the man she loves but also a ready-made family in his two daughters, Emily and Sophia. Unable to have a child of...
View full detailsThe Quantum Universe
Brian Cox
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• Author(s): Brian Cox • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The Quantum Universe' brings together two authors on an ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just...
View full detailsThe Invisible Woman
Claire Tomalin
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• Author(s): Claire Tomalin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens Winner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Pr...
View full detailsSamuel Pepys
Claire Tomalin
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• Author(s): Claire Tomalin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSamuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 2002 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Immaculately well done. Tomalin has m...
View full detailsJane Austen
Claire Tomalin
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• Author(s): Claire Tomalin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Cha...
View full detailsThomas Hardy
Claire Tomalin
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• Author(s): Claire Tomalin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThomas Hardy is the acclaimed biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the most empatheti...
View full detailsThe Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Claire Tomalin
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• Author(s): Claire Tomalin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize Witty, co...
View full detailsSelected Poems
Dom Moraes
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• Author(s): Dom Moraes • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The Original of Laura
Vladimir Nabokov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans and family. It is about a large man called Philip Wild, ...
View full detailsRobinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
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• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may ...
View full detailsPride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had ha...
View full detailsWuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
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• Author(s): Emily Bronte • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront "May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt...
View full detailsThe Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
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• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not crue...
View full detailsIvanhoe
Walter Scott
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• Author(s): Walter Scott • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott 'Fight on, brave knights Man dies, but glory lives ' Banished from England for seeking ...
View full detailsTreasure Island and The Ebb-Tide
Robert Louis Stevenson
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• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson '"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'...
View full detailsThe Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hou...
View full detailsChokher Bali
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General
Willpower
Roy F. Baumeister
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• Author(s): Roy F. Baumeister • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBased on years of psychological research and filled with practical advice, this book will teach you how to gain from self-control without pain, an...
View full detailsMaking the Future
Noam Chomsky
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• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNoam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system,...
View full detailsIs That a Fish in Your Ear?
David Bellos
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• Author(s): David Bellos • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIs That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming langu...
View full detailsBoomerang
Michael Lewis
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• Author(s): Michael Lewis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Boomerang' is about the effects of the U.S. financial crisis on large and small European countries and how their difficulties impact the US.
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
Spike Milligan
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• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert is volume two of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'Keep talking, Mil...
View full detailsMonty
Spike Milligan
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• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMonty: His Part in My Victory is volume three of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surre...
View full detailsMussolini
Spike Milligan
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• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMussolini: His Part in My Downfall is volume four of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. "A voice is calling across the la...
View full detailsWhere Have All the Bullets Gone?
Spike Milligan
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• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhere Have All the Bullets Gone? is volume five of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'Back to those haunting days in Ita...
View full detailsGoodbye Soldier
Spike Milligan
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• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGoodbye Soldier is volume six of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone...
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