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Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange

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Fifteen-year-old Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his f…

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John K. Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces

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Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader aga…

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E. M. Forster
A Passage to India

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Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her elderly compan…

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William Sutcliffe
Are You Experienced?

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William Sutcliffe was born in London in 1971, and was educated at Cambridge. He is the author of five novels for adults, and two young adult novels. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and three children.

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W. G. Sebald,
Austerlitz

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In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he gro…

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Colm Tóibín
Brooklyn

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Colm T ib /b> was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three ti…

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Hunter S. Thompson
Hell's Angels

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Shoulder-length hair streaming, swastikas jangling, filthy death's-head-emblazoned denims crackling in the wind - the Hell's Angels are out on a run, and America's West Coast cowers in loathing. Press rep…

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Nicole Krauss
History of Love

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Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel Man Walks into a Room, to be published by Penguin in 2006, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac

Penguin Essentials

Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of our modern classic…

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Jack Kerouac
On the Road

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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 for release or fulfilment through…

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Tania Blixen
Out of Africa

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Presents the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman, and of a way of life that has vanished for ever. Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris a…

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Elif Shafak
The Forty Rules of Love

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The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights…

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Muriel Spark
The Girls Of Slender Means

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'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.' The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of L…

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Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle

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'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.' America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York…

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Margaret Drabble
The Millstone

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Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and read English at Cambridge. She was awarded a DBE in 2008. Since the 1960s she has written 17 novels - The Millstone was her third - and she has also edit…

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Jonathan Coe
What a Carve Up!

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Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club and Number 11. He is also the a…

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Zadie Smith
White Teeth

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Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and edito…

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