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Regeneration by Pat Barker
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims - whatever they may be - and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Sie ...Show more
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect's Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize.One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announ ...Show more
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT ' It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that David and his cousin Rosalind, have their own secre ...Show more
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film--a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitte ...Show more
The History Of Love: Penguin Essentials by Nicole Krauss
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
This Book is Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006. Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When I was born my mother named ...Show more
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Truth, she thought, as terrible as death but harder to find . . .' America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war ...Show more
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of ind ...Show more
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies ...Show more
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland 'Excuse me, sir, but m ...Show more
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life . . .' Coming of age in 1970s' Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to disc ...Show more
The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you we ...Show more