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    Infinite Jest
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    Infinite Jest

    Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' INDEPENDENT With a new foreword by Dave Eggers Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering...
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    Alias Grace
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    Alias Grace

    Now a major Netflix series 'Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most...
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    Stone Mattress
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    Stone Mattress

    A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.   A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome...
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    One Day I Shall Astonish the World
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    One Day I Shall Astonish the World

    From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin...
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    Legacy of Spies
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    Legacy of Spies

    For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this thrilling masterpiece, now in the giftable hardback series Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known...
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    Crime and Punishment
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    Crime and Punishment

    Back by popular demand, the original Clothbound Classics edition of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible...
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    Most Wanted Man
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    Most Wanted Man

    A novel of tremendous political relevance now in the giftable hardback series A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He...
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    The Sherlock Holmes Book
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    The Sherlock Holmes Book

    The game is afoot and now you can discover every detail of Sherlock Holmes' world. From the first novel A Study in Scarlet, through to the masterpiece that is The Hound of the Baskervilles and the detective's last story, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old...
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    The Complete Stories
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    The Complete Stories

    WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIA-ASIA LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD In these thirty-one stories David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humour, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He...
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    Ransom
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    Ransom

    David Malouf shines new light on Homer's Iliad, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes of earthy humour, to surprise and enchant. In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. From the...
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    Golden Age
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    Golden Age

    It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a...
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    Spy
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    Spy

    When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as...
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    Nimblefoot
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    Nimblefoot

    The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers. At the age of ten, and just short of four feet tall, a boy from Ballarat named...
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    Wrong Girl
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    Wrong Girl

    What happens when you discover the man of your dreams is going out with your best friend?  Lily needs a break. A man break. She hadn’t exactly meant to sleep with her friend, Pete, and she certainly hadn’t expected him to confess his love – for another...
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    One and Only Dolly Jamieson
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    One and Only Dolly Jamieson

    Life is full of downs and ups . . . Dolly Jamieson is not homeless, she's merely between permanent abodes. The 78-year-old spends her days keeping warm at the local library, where she enjoys sparring with the officious head librarian and helping herself...
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    I'll Leave You With This
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    I'll Leave You With This

    I'll Leave You With This is a heartbreaking, funny, thought-provoking and honest novel about a brother's legacy and the tangled bonds of sisterhood. 'Heartwarming, uplifting, inspiring . . . a compelling read.' Graeme Simsion 'A page-turner from the...
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    Fanatic Heart
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    Fanatic Heart

    A retelling of the life and exploits of Irish patriot John Mitchel, with a particular focus on his time in exile on Van Diemen’s Land.  John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charged with treason in...
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    Wild Pork and Watercress
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    Wild Pork and Watercress

    This rattling good yarn has now been made into a major movie- Hunt For the Wilderpeople, directed and written by Taika Waititi, and starring Sam Neill and Julian Dennison. When Social Welfare threatens to put Ricky into care, the overweight Maori boy...
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    Adultery
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    Adultery

    The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. This is Linda's story. She's lucky. She knows that. It's what makes being unhappy even worse. Her friends advise taking medication. But Linda wants to...
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    In the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to appease the needs of the Party. Inwardly, he rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him...
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    Jane Eyre
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    Jane Eyre

    A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of the Black Classic edition sold every year. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and...
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    Dracula
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    Dracula

    'The very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years' Arthur Conan Doyle A masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. It begins when Jonathan Harker visits...
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    Complete Short Fiction
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    Complete Short Fiction

    Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners – the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is...
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    Pride and Prejudice
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    Pride and Prejudice

    When Elizabeth first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lovely mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled...
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    Gulliver's Travels
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    Gulliver's Travels

    A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr. Gulliver's...
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    Gooseberries

    "Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the short...
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    Clockwork Orange
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    Clockwork Orange

    This special edition of A Clockwork Orange restores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews,...
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    Little Prince
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    Little Prince

    Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the...
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    We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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    We Have Always Lived in the Castle

    Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat...
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    Of Mice and Men
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    Of Mice and Men

    A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern Classics Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one...
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    Animal Farm
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    Animal Farm

    When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the...
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    Confederacy of Dunces
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    Confederacy of Dunces

    Meet Ignatius J. Reilly- flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade...
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    Farewell My Lovely
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    Farewell My Lovely

    Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married – until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the...
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    Cold Comfort Farm
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    Cold Comfort Farm

    When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders, an eccentric group of relatives...
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    Wuthering Heights
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    Wuthering Heights

    In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere. As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy:...
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    1984
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    1984

    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thriteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal...
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    The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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    The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller. It is 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,...
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    Things Fall Apart
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    Things Fall Apart

    A brand new imprint from Penguin Classics Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father,...
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    Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, A
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    Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, A

    Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding' Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring...
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    Mists of Avalon
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    Mists of Avalon

    This is the tragic tale of the rise and fall of Camelot - but seen through the eyes of Camelot's women: the devout Gwenhwyfar, Arthur's Queen; Vivane, High priestess of Avalon and the Lady of the Lake; above all, Morgaine, possessor of the sight, the...
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    Slaughterhouse 5
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    Slaughterhouse 5

    Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring...
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    Beautiful You
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    Beautiful You

    A billion husbands are about to be replaced. From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for...
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    The Son
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    The Son

    he brand new thriller from no 1 bestselling crime author, Jo Nesbo, which sees a charismatic young prisoner breaking out of jail to find out the truth about his father's death and seek revenge on those who lied to him 'Nesbo deserves to be crowned the...
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    All Quiet on the Western Front
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    ** NOW A HIT NETFLIX FILM, WINNER OF 7 BAFTAS AND 4 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE** Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and...
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    Handmaid's Tale
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    Handmaid's Tale

    ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The Testaments. 'The Handmaid's Tale changed me profoundly, hopefully for the better' Lee Child, Guardian ...
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    As I Lay Dying
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    As I Lay Dying

    'Brilliant and compelling - one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense...
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    Runaway
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    Runaway

    From the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize and 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school...
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    Longest Memory
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    Longest Memory

    From William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner to Toni Morrison's Beloved, modern American fiction engaged with slavery has provoked fiery controversy. So will The Longest Memory, the powerful, beautifully crafted, internationally acclaimed...
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