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  • HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing...
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  • MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
    DURRELL, GERALD
    My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine...a country where we can grow.''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a...
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  • GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
    EVARISTO, BERNARDINE
    Un estil literari trencador a cavall entre la poesia i la prosa que l’autora defineix com “literatura fusió”. Un text escrit al marge de les convencions literàries i les regles habituals de puntuació que, d’altra banda, sorprèn per la seva fluïdesa i facilitat de lectura. Una Gran Bretanya com mai s’ha explicat. De Newcastle a Cornualla, des de principis del segle vint fins les...
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  • EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
    ALDERTON, DOLLY
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug' Evening Standa...
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  • MANIFESTO
    EVARISTO, BERNARDINE
    'This honest, engaging memoir shares such gems . . .the perfect read for anyone who dreams big' The Times and Sunday Times, Books of the Year The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine EvaristoIn 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earli...
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  • FUNNY STORY
    HENRY, EMILY
    FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & GLOBAL TIK TOK SENSATION, EMILY HENRY'One of my favourite authors' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us'Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, Daisy Jones and The Six-----Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story.That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his chi...
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  • GOOD MATERIAL
    ALDERTON, DOLLY
    'Made me laugh while punching me in the gut. Loved this book' AISLING BEA'This is the greatest. You'll cry and laugh.I read it though the night. And I never, ever avoid sleep' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN'I award it 13/10 on my QWJ scale (stands for Queasy With Jealousy that I didn't write it)' MARIAN KEYES---Every relationship has one beginning.This one has two endings.Andy loves Jen. Je...
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  • BLONDE ROOTS
    EVARISTO, BERNARDINE
    FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERLONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thou...
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  • THE CLIMATE BOOK
    THUNBERG, GRETA
    We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds.There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book,...
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  • WHITE TEETH
    SMITH, ZADIE
    Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st Century From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union'BELIEVE THE HYPE' The TimesThe international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is ...
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  • PERSUASION
    AUSTEN, JANE
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  • I'VE BEEN THINKING
    C. DENNETT, DANIEL
    'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warburton, Times Literary Supplement'One of today's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers' Nature'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?'Daniel C. Dennett,...
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  • ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA
    SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
    'Shakespeare's play is death-haunted from the start, and its self-glorifying lovers exist in a dream of passion' GuardianA battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the tempestuous and alluring queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. And when their life of pleasure together is threatened b...
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  • BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
    KIMMERER, ROBIN WALL
    'A hymn of love to the world ... A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants ...
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  • THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
    CHESTERTON, G K
    The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence."My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'In a park in London, secret policeman Gabr...
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  • DEAR DOLLY : ON LOVE, LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP
    ALDERTON, DOLLY
    'Dolly Alderton at her wise, warm and witty best' RedSince early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body ...
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  • MEDITATIONS
    AURELIUS, MARCUS
    'Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad' Blake MorrisonWritten in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the empero...
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  • HAPPY PLACE
    HENRY, EMILY
    'Hilarious and wise… Another knockout’ Taylor Jenkins Reid'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover‘A must-read book of the year’ Lauren Asher-----Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything?Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.Every year, they take a holiday from their liv...
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  • THE FRAUD
    SMITH, ZADIE
    Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023LONGLISTED ...
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  • NORA WEBSTER
    TOIBIN, COLM
    * * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.She is fiercely intelligent, at times dif...
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