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The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

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Author: Alice Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'A lush celebration...
White Teeth

White Teeth

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Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...
Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

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Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws,...
The Road film tie-in

The Road film tie-in

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Dracula

Dracula

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Bram Stoker's timeless gothic tale, now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. Originally published in 1897, Dracula is one of the most enduring and influential works of literature ever...
The Known World

The Known World

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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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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...
Fiction Classics Bargain Book Box

Fiction Classics Bargain Book Box

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Fiction Classics Bargain Book Box (17 Books) This collection spans the breadth of foundational literature, encompassing gothic horror, psychological realism, and essential folklore. It balances the stark existentialism of early...
The Road

The Road

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Author: Cormac McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It...
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She...
My Brilliant Friend: The Neapolitan Novels, Book One

My Brilliant Friend: The Neapolitan Novels, Book One

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The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize

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Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie,...
The Trial

The Trial

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The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror 'It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary' Rediscover Kafka's classic work...
The Color Purple: The modern classic, now a major motion picture produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple: The modern classic, now a major motion picture produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

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Author: Alice WalkerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 240g, 272 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED...
Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR...
The Road

The Road

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In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

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The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century In the opening volume...
Pale Fire

Pale Fire

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Nabokov's suspenseful whodunit and one of his most acclaimed works The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with...
The Road

The Road

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Author: Cormac McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM STARRING VIGGO MORTENSEN "So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent" Daily Telegraph...
The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty

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The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece

The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece

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Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A rich and complex story of friendship and love' GUARDIAN 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart'...
A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition

A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition

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A special edition of Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic, including the author's 1948 introduction, his early drafts, and all of the 47 alternative endings WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY...
A Fine Balance: The epic modern classic

A Fine Balance: The epic modern classic

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Author: Rohinton Mistry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of...
The Road

The Road

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The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair

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'One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language' William Faulkner WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah,...
My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend

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The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls...
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

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Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Overa century and a half...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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Arguably Achebe's most important novel, Things Fall Apart has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than fifty languages Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous...
Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

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Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's

In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's

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Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...
The Talented Mr Ripley

The Talented Mr Ripley

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'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley is...
White Teeth

White Teeth

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Author: Zadie Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London One of the most...
Dracula

Dracula

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Author: Bram Stoker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Step into the chilling world of Dracula, where Count Dracula, the legendary vampire, haunts the shadows of Victorian England. This Gothic horror...
The Handmaid's Tale: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

The Handmaid's Tale: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's classic dystopian novel. 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' Guardian Offred is a...
The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

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This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I As Seen on BBC Between...
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his...
Frankenstein (Painted Editions)

Frankenstein (Painted Editions)

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Frankenstein , the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal...
Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

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'Our Mutual Friend', Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**

Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC

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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...
To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

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This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home...
To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

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Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood...
Austerlitz

Austerlitz

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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

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50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than...
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together...
Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

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Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day' On...
Never Let Me Go Film Tie-in

Never Let Me Go Film Tie-in

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