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• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPeace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it...

• Author(s): Hunter S Thompson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs'. Fear and Loathing a...

• Author(s): Josh Kaufman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTaking an MBA can be a waste of time and money. This book distils the essence of business into a few hour's reading.

• Author(s): Gerald Durrell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like rada...

• Author(s): Philip Coggan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award In today's finan...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Hosking • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGeoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritativ...

• Author(s): Chris Stringer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHow can we define modern humans? Can we accurately date fossils, including ones beyond the range of radiocarbon dating? And what does genetic data re...

• Author(s): Tim Robinson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable non-fiction...

• Author(s): Frances Burney • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Evelina by Frances Burney 'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of ha...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show' Dickens's epic...

• Author(s): E. M. Forster • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 'I had got an idea that everyone here spent their lives in making l...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black...

• Author(s): Spike Milligan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAdolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'At Victoria station the R.T.O....

• Author(s): Ruskin Bond • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: Poetry (See Also Stories In Verse)An eclectic collection of Ruskin Bond's poems for children

• Author(s): Amiya P. Sen • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Viking • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableA short but scholarly study of one of the great reformers of modern India

• Author(s): Ali Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at...

• Author(s): John Bradshaw • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn authoritative exploration of what dogs are, what makes them tick and what they would ask us for if only they knew how.

• Author(s): Ross Macdonald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this noir mystery, PI Lew Archer is hired to track down a missing child, but becomes embroiled in a baffling forest fire that threatens an affluen...

• Author(s): Ross Macdonald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLew Archer has been hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has ...

• Author(s): Ross Macdonald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPrivate detective Lew Archer is engaged to trace a missing spouse, who has vanished - apparently of her own free will - only a day into her honeymoon...

• Author(s): Ross Macdonald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis Lew Archer novel opens with a well dressed woman hesitantly engaging Archer's services at his LA office. Soon he is digging up all kinds of secr...

• Author(s): Ross Macdonald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd20 years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found,...

• Author(s): Lesley Pearse • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLesley Pearse, No.1 bestselling author of Stolen and Belle, returns with the phenomenal novel The Promise. Heartbreaking, enduring and masterfully tol...

• Author(s): Steve Hagen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this text, Steve Hagen suggests that in practicising meditation we go nowhere other than right here where we know stand, where we now sit, where we l...

• Author(s): Simon Jenkins • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSimon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - of...

• Author(s): David Gilmour • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the...

• Author(s): Paul Theroux • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Tourism, Travel Guide & HospitalityPaul Theroux celebrates 50 years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped ...

• Author(s): David Foster Wallace • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Wallace. But as he immerses himself in ...

• Author(s): Evgeny Morozov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDoes free information mean free people? At the start of the 21st century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. In 'The Net Del...

• Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'This delicious confection will work its magic on all' Daily Telegraph The discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed 'To Those who Apprecia...

• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope is a portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-w...

• Author(s): Man Ray • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this autobiography, May Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to...

• Author(s): Brian Lavery • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis title provides a vivid, gripping and deeply personal account of the 'unsinkable' Titanic's descent. The book includes a new prologue by Julian Fel...

• Author(s): Muriel Spark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'l...

• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBefore 'Trainspotting', there was 'Junky'. 'Junky was the original, first-hand acount of heroin addiction which outraged '50s America and influ...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway's and Septimus Smith...

• Author(s): Joseph Conrad • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within th...

• Author(s): Primo Levi • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as an industrial chemist and the terrible years he s...

• Author(s): Jerome K Jerome • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to...

• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAgent Al Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has a horrific murder to solve - and precious few clues. Capote's reconstruction of the slaughter...

• Author(s): Kingsley Amis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cros...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen ...

• Author(s): Dashiell Hammett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEx-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is fou...

• Author(s): Jojo Moyes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea...

• Author(s): Jilliane Hoffman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne terrible night in New York City, brilliant law student Chloe Larson is brutally attacked in her own home - and her life is changed for ever ......

• Author(s): Ian Kershaw • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe last months of WWII were a nightmarish time to be alive. It was the end of the Third Reich & its terrible empire but also, it seemed to be the e...

• Author(s): Henry Kissinger • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHenry Kissinger writes about the country he has known intimately for decades & whose relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on histori...

• Author(s): Hubert Selby Jr. • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet in the hard world of back-street New York, Selby tells the story of 2 young men and their companion, a directionless young woman, hustling thei...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen 'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and...

• Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 'Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and thre...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionThe Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained...

• Author(s): Wilkie Collins • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamon...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her ...

• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Tragic and movi...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parti...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to - to criticise my private conduct ' she ex...

• Author(s): Herman Melville • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enorm...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet ap...

• Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe '... an agility astounding, a strength s...