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Ancient Light by John Banville
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism."All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slog ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition- a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American s ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse: Penguin Essentials by Françoise Sagan
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary ... This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love'. The French Riviera: home to t ...Show more
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: Very good
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of d ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What's your road, man - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow'. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search fo ...Show more
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
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Category: General 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: SFF Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 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 Photograph by Penelope Lively
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.' The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph showing Kath holding hands with another man. Unable to forget this long-ago act of betrayal he recklessly ...Show more
The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
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Category: Middle Readers | 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
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics. ...Show more
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