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  • WHY I AM A STOIC
    WHY I AM A STOIC
    SENECA
    Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago, the ancient philosopher speaks to the reader today with lucidity and warmth. Whether advising on how to live a good life, spend time alone or free oneself from fears of death, Seneca is the wise and compassionate ...
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  • THE LADY BANDIT
    THE LADY BANDIT
    EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain - sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining. But if you decide to visit, be...
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  • A SHORT GUIDE TO TOWNS WITHOUT A PAST
    A SHORT GUIDE TO TOWNS WITHOUT A PAST
    ALBERT CAMUS
    Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of his finest personal essays about Algeria and its environs, including the luminous 'Nuptials at Tipasa', one of his earliest works where he developed the themes that would info...
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  • TRISTESSA
    TRISTESSA
    JACK KEROUAC
    Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums'. ...
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  • REVENGE
    REVENGE
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!' A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged woman appear in these playful, exuberant stories by Vladimir Nabokov. So do a vengeful husband, a barber confronting his torturer and the author himself, as he recalls his first love. Each of the thirteen tales here encha...
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  • FOR ART AND FOR LIFE
    FOR ART AND FOR LIFE
    VINCENT VAN GOGH
    Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became The Starry Night, the letters in this selection paint an intense personal narrative of his artistic development and creative process across the years. They reveal a man of great spi...
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  • ECCE HOMO
    ECCE HOMO
    DAMBUDZO MARECHERA
    I am not a man, I am dynamite Weeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo is the result. A summary of his life's work as a philosopher, with chapter headings including 'Why I Am So Wise' and 'Why I Write Such Good Books', it is part mocking self-judgement and part battle cry, and remains one of the most singular, stran...
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  • THE BROKEN NEST
    THE BROKEN NEST
    RABINDRANATH. TAGORE
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead or Alive' - he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of two perfect Bengali households. No-one understands each other; everything is misconstrued; all is lost. ...
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  • A CONFIRMED BACHELOR
    A CONFIRMED BACHELOR
    ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
    Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons. Arthur Schnitzler'...
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  • A MOMENT OF WAR
    A MOMENT OF WAR
    LAURIE LEE
    In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; 'that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that id...
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  • STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
    STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
    HERMANN HESSE
    Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit... A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand the animals talking, a young man turns into a mountain and a bird guides a boy to another planet in this selection of dream-like and visionary fairy tales from the great German-Swiss...
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  • THE NEW DRESS
    THE NEW DRESS
    VIRGINIA WOOLF
    'Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart."' In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself; a pale-yellow silk dress provokes a painful self-reckoning. Beaut...
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  • THE BLAZING WORLD
    THE BLAZING WORLD
    MARGARET CAVENDISH
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security' In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North Pole leading to a utopian parallel universe, where gender roles, scientific orthodoxy and political norms had been razed to the ground. ...
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  • THE RICH BOY
    THE RICH BOY
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, we meet Anson Hunter, 'The Rich Boy', whose opulent, haunting world paints a vivid portrait of the American elite. 'Absolution' offers a poignant glimpse into the soul of a young boy grappling with sin, whilst 'May Day' captures the whir...
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  • HOP-FROG
    HOP-FROG
    EDGAR ALLAN POE
    Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is s...
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  • DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
    DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
    DYLAN. THOMAS
    Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection includes some of his best poetry, celebrating both inner and outer landscapes in the face of mortality, decay, human weakness, and beckoning readers to 'rage, rage against the dying of the...
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  • UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN
    UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN
    ITALO CALVINO
    I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest ... The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun ...
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  • THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART
    THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART
    MARK LAWRENCE
    The final volume in the The Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN and THE BOOK THAT BROKE THE WORLD. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, family, an...
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  • THE TWENTYSOMETHING TREATMENT
    THE TWENTYSOMETHING TREATMENT
    MEG JAY
    Most twentysomethings don't have disorders that need to be treated; they have problems that need to be solved. In the face of an unknown future and a challenging present, our twentysomethings are struggling. From the threat of climate change to worries about affording a home, it is no wonder that many are suffering with severe anxiety and depression. They are also, however, a...
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  • UNTITLED KO
    UNTITLED KO
    HANNAH GRACE / TO BE CONFIRMED ATRIA
    From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Icebreaker and Daydream . . . When Russ and Aurora cross paths at a university party, a drinking game ends with them spending the night together. The next day, Aurora slips away before Russ learns her full name. This anonymity ends when they both turn up to their first day of work as camp counsellors. A job ...
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  • PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY
    PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY
    TIM MARSHALL
    Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer crucial insights into one of the major factors that determines world history - because if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. Originally published in 2015, this completely revised and updated edition brings it up to date with the events and trends of the past decade, with new mate...
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  • THE ENGRAVER'S SECRET
    THE ENGRAVER'S SECRET
    LISA MEDVED
    Two women, a mysterious map, and a family secret spanning hundreds of years ... A stunning art history thriller set around the life, times, and feuds of the artist Peter Paul Rubens. 'An inspired blend of history and suspense ... This wonderful debut novel will inhabit your dreams' Dominic Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos and Return t...
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  • THE COLOUR OF REVENGE
    THE COLOUR OF REVENGE
    CORNELIA FUNKE
    After five happy years, Meggie, her father Mo, and the fire-eater Dustfinger, along with a host of new friends feel safe and settled. But arch-villain Orpheus has found an unexpected way to wreak his revenge on the Inkworld! He has corrupted an artist to create bewitched portraits that will see the heroes fade to grey. Dustfinger, his brave stepson, Jehan and his enigmatic frie...
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  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
    A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
    NIGEL WARBURTON
    A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . . A wonderful introduction for anyone who's ever felt curious about almost anything."--Sarah Bakewell, author of How To Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty...
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  • TABLE FOR TWO
    TABLE FOR TWO
    AMOR TOWLES
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Feels more mythically New York than a Woody Allen storyboard painted by Edward Hopper' THE TIMES 'Wonderful' DAILY MAIL 'Storytelling of the highest order' IRISH TIMES 'Towles is a craftsman' NEW YORK TIMES Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella ...
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  • THE RESTAURANT OF LOST RECIPES
    THE RESTAURANT OF LOST RECIPES
    HISASHI KASHIWAI
    'Author Hisashi Kashiwai shows a tremendous amount of empathy for his characters as well as a gentle humor. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll open a delivery app' - Apple Books The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and fo...
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  • BIRDING
    BIRDING
    ROSE RUANE
    'I have GULPED this novel down . . . Birding gave me everything I want in a novel, including a massive, cathartic cry at the end. Achingly poignant, yet ultimately hopeful, with a worn out seaside town I can see so clearly' Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things 'A beautiful book full of stark truths . . . Lyrical and evocative, highly recommended' Evie King, ...
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  • MURTAGH
    MURTAGH
    CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
    The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air...
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  • LOVE IN A DARK TIME
    LOVE IN A DARK TIME
    COLM TOIBIN
    In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Linked by the common thread of their sexualities, his subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodóvar, born nearly a hundred years later. Tóibín studies how a changing world impacte...
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  • THE LAND OF LOST THINGS
    THE LAND OF LOST THINGS
    ANDY GRIFFITHS
    You and Me and the Land of Lost Things is the brand new adventure series from Andy Griffiths, the author behind the multi-million bestselling Treehouse series that puts YOU the reader right into the middle of the adventure! This book is highly illustrated by Bill Hope in a comic book style, perfect for fans of Dogman and Bunny vs Monkey. What are you waiting for? Come on in! ...
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