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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blo ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
Xpd by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border. For more than forty years the events of this day have been Britain's most clos ...Show more
Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collideSinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy...
Youth by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Unable to stay on to high school, Tove starts her first job (which lasts only one day) and soon embarks on a varied and chequered career: as au pair, cleaner, stock-room assistant and office worker. But Tove is hungry, for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As she navigates exploitative bosses, u ...Show more