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90 Classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksWhat can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you. I’ll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I’d like to awfully, but I’m having labor pains.Acerbic, pithy and...
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90 Classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin Books'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, a forlorn...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin Books'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalks the...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories – ‘The Broken Nest’ and ‘Dead or Alive’ – he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin Books'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody’s assistance.’ In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise – or, as some would have it, a notorious criminal. We follow...
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Family is everything, even when it falls apart.Discover the escapist new Sunday Times bestselling novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Miss Benson’s Beetle and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. 'The perfect holiday read.'-The Times‘A must-read.’...
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Transworld Digital
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The International Booker Prize-shortlisted masterpiece on grief and loss, from one of France's most original writers at work todayA Leopard-Skin Hat may be Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. A masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance, it is the story of an...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin Books‘Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale’In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and hopeless...
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In 1981, the Cologne Trade-Fair centre hosted a large exhibition titled Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939 [Western Art: Contemporary Art since 1939]. Organised by art critic Laszlo Glozer and curator Kasper König, the Western-centric survey highlighted...
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90 Classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris – a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included in this volume is Sylvie, his haunting novella of love and memory,...
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'Smart, sharp and unputdownable.' Bella'This is likely to be one of those most incredible and thought-provoking books I read this year.' Reader ReviewIf a pill could free you of guilt would you take it?From the outside, Maya Patel's life looks perfect. She has a...
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'The lost world of the ancient Britons is vividly and memorably recreated' The TimesThe old ways are dying, and a mighty empire is reaching out across the sea.Britannia, 42AD. The wild island at the fringe of the known world is in chaos.Cunobelin, High King of the...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksA young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants instead – their occupation with memory and tradition, their vibrant...
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION'Ambitious, wildly original ... it will trick and tease you to the bitter end.'THE TIMES'Singular and potent ... Unsettling and sharply...
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksIt is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals…...
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What would killing him accomplish? Nothing, mostly.Then again, neither would letting him live.When Hester is diagnosed with cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged...
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Vintage Digital
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'Deliciously sexy and twisted. Confirms Blackhurst's storytelling skill' Daily Mail 'A deliciously dark tale of revenenge' Woman's Own Till death do us partLuke Whitney is stabbed to death. His wife Anna confesses after she is found next to his lifeless body. But if she...
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