Penguin Classics

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  Buddhist meditation

  £12.99

  A Tibetan Buddhist anthology of accessible and authentic contemplative exercises to help cultivate innate yet undeveloped powers of mind, emotion, and body. A Penguin Classic Drawn from Tibet’...

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  Hold still

  £14.99

  A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann’s preoccupat...

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  A book for Christmas

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  A little girl receives a gift to treasure; the creatures of the forest gather to celebrate the New Year; an evil noblewoman schemes against her beautiful niece; a cantankerous gravedigger dines wit...

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  The Rainbow

  £9.99

  With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters – born to the same father but different mothers – struggle to make sense of...

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  Collected poems

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  Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His Collected Poems open a new window on this community, as Lee tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Written from the...

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  The Blood of Others

  £9.99

  Jean Blomart, privileged bourgeois turned patriot leader against the Nazi occupation, waits through the night for his lover to die. Flashbacks interweave the stories of both their lives until, with...

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  The Prime of Life

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  This is the second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiography. In it she continues the story of her life from the age of 21, through the uneasy rebellious 30s, the war years and finally to ...

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  The outsider

  £18.99

  A stranger to society, a stranger to his own life, Meursault seems indifferent to everything. In ‘The Outsider’, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to...

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  The haunting of Hill House

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  Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and Eleanor a fragile young woman with a t...

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  The peasants

  £15.99

  In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village’s wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride R...

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  In this sign

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  Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitive school and begin their life as a married couple ‘Outside’ – in the unwelcoming world of the hearing. A misunderstandin...

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  The last man

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  Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate-changing Mount Tambora eruption an...

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  The Penguin book of pirates

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  Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, ‘The Penguin Book of Pi...

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  The story of a life

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  When World War II broke out, Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old, the child of an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family in Czernowitz. This is his account of the years which followed – rec...

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  The Napoleon of Notting Hill

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  London, 1984. Democracy has given up the ghost. England’s ruler is randomly selected, and this year it’s Auberon Quin, a clerk with an odd sense of humour. Quinn mandates that each boro...

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  Tinker tailor soldier spy

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  George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scal...

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  The castle

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  ‘The Castle’ is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of ...

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  The trial

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  First published in 1925, ‘The Trial’ is a classic story of totalitarianism, sadism, and hysteria. With a labyrinth of meanings, author Franz Kafka explores the dark lives of killers. Add to basket

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  Concerning the spiritual in art

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  Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this book lays out the tenets of painting as he saw them, and makes the case for non-objective artistic form...

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  Inspector Imanishi investigates

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  Inspector Imanishi is 45, and the most dogged homicide detective on the Tokyo police force. Involved in the investigation of a brutal murder, Imanishi pursues the hunt for the criminal even after t...

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  Death in midsummer

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  Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan’s greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother ...

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  Great Japanese stories

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  Here is a hand-picked selection which celebrates the best literature to emerge from Japan since the twentieth century. From a surreal fairy tale to a heart-rending evocation of the aftermath of the...

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  Oil!

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  Upton Sinclair’s novel grew out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. A...

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  Lolita

  £16.99

  Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous mag...

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  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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  The story of respectable Dr Jekyll’s strange association with ‘damnable young man’ Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde...

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  Merits of the plague

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  Six hundred years ago, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani – an esteemed Islamic scholar and poet – survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, as well as millions of ...

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  The Secret History of the Mongols

  £12.99

  Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving world, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan transformed the 13th century, ultimately ruling an empire that would stretch from Korea to Crimea and Syria to Siberia. Much of...

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  Call for the dead

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  After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man’s death, he begi...

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  SS-GB

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  It is 1941. British Command has surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall. For nine months Britain has been occupied and it’s...

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  Kallocain

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  Written midway between ‘Brave New World’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian ‘W...

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