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  • SUBMARINE -5%
    SUBMARINE
    JOE DUNTHORNE
    Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner') and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, 'a hippy-looking twonk', he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - ...
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  • THE MILLSTONE -5%
    THE MILLSTONE
    MARGARET DRABBLE
    u003cbu003eA celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. u003cpu003eu003c/bu003eIt is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a resul...
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  • A CLOCKWORK ORANGE -5%
    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
    ANTHONY BURGESS
    u003cpu003eu003ciu003eA Clockwork Orangeu003c/iu003e is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003e'What's it going to be then, eh?'u003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eIn this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fif...
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  • 1984 -5%
    1984
    GEORGE ORWELL
    Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought...
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  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE -5%
    THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    MARGARET ATWOOD
    ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** **A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ** Discover the cultural phenomenon behind the award-winning TV series that feels all the more powerful and prescient in a post-Roe vs. Wade world. 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' Guardian I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rath...
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  • THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD -5%
    THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
    JOHN LE CARRÉ
    u003cbu003eAs we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smileyu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e In 1963 John le Carre published his third book, u003ciu003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Coldu003c/iu003e. Written over a period of about five weeks in response to the fear and ugliness of the Berlin W...
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  • THE PHOTOGRAPH -5%
    THE PHOTOGRAPH
    PENELOPE LIVELY
    A gorgeous novel by the Booker-winning author, now a Penguin Essentialu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, many years earlier, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Glyn's work as a historian should have inured ...
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  • BEAUTIFUL RUINS -5%
    BEAUTIFUL RUINS
    JESS WALTER
    The gorgeous, glamorous u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e bestseller set in 1960s Italy and modern-day Hollywood - now a Penguin Essentialu003cbru003e u003cbru003e The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the run from ...
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  • SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY -5%
    SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY
    DEBORAH LEVY
    Through the voice of the irreverent and ironic narrator J.K., this story interrogates the yearning of discontented children, imagined homes and strangers and histories at the turbulent close of the 20th century. ...
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  • LITTLE WOMEN -5%
    LITTLE WOMEN
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    u003cbu003eIncluding an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller u003ciu003eFeminists Don't Wear Pink.u003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eu003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e Meet the March Sisters: u003cbru003e- u003cbu003eMegu003c/bu003e is the eldest and on the brink of love.u003cbru003e- Then t...
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  • THE CHRYSALIDS -5%
    THE CHRYSALIDS
    JOHN WYNDHAM
    'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT!' u003cpu003eIt 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 secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as they grow ...
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  • LITTLE WOMEN -5%
    LITTLE WOMEN
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    ogether they're the March sisters. Their father is away at war and times are difficult, but the bond between the sisters is strong. The family may not have much money, but that doesn't stop them from creating their own fun and forming a secret society. Through sisterly squabbles, happy times and sad, their four lives follow very different paths, and they discover that growing u...
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  • SKIN AND OTHER STORIES -5%
    SKIN AND OTHER STORIES
    ROALD DAHL
    u003cbu003eHOWu003c/bu003e would you dispose of a murder weapon without causing suspicion?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eWHEREu003c/bu003e would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eWHATu003c/bu003e if you discovered the tattoo on your back was worth a million dollars?u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eELEVEN T...
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  • THE SIGN OF THE FOUR -5%
    THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Sinopsis"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff..." The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES -5%
    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Sinopsis"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex..." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 1892. The stories are not in...
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  • LITTLE MEN -5%
    LITTLE MEN
    LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
    With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March - now Mrs Jo Bhaer - couldn't be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and their mischievous antics call for the warm and affectionate support of the whole March family to help avoid disaster... ...
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  • THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES -5%
    THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    ?It can?t hurt now,? was Mr. Sherlock Holmes?s comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend?s career...?The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 in to...
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  • THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE -5%
    THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
    PHILIP K. DICK
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eNOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIESu003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003e'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanes...
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  • THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS -5%
    THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
    JOHN WYNDHAM
    u003cbu003eThe most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's u003ciu003eThe Day of the Triffidsu003c/iu003e, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.u003c/bu003eu003cpu003eu003ciu003e'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.'u003c/iu003e u003cpu003eWhen ...
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  • PENGUIN CLASSICS ANIMAL FARM -5%
    PENGUIN CLASSICS ANIMAL FARM
    GEORGE ORWELL
    'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'u003cbru003eu003cbru003eWhen the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take co...
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  • NORTHANGER ABBEY -5%
    NORTHANGER ABBEY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    u003cbu003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of u003ciu003eNorthanger Abbey u003c/iu003eby Jane Austenu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e'To look u003ciu003ealmost u003c/iu003epretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu...
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  • DR JEKYLL ADN MR HYDE -5%
    DR JEKYLL ADN MR HYDE
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    u003cbu003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of u003ciu003eDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde u003c/iu003eby Robert Louis Stevensonu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003ePublished as a 'shilling shocker', Robert ...
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  • BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S -5%
    BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
    TRUMAN CAPOTE
    u003cbu003e'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits . . . 'u003c/bu003eMeet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and u...
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  • THE HUNGER GAMES -5%
    THE HUNGER GAMES
    SUZANNE COLLINS
    First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she se...
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  • ON THE ROAD -5%
    ON THE ROAD
    JACK KEROUAC
    '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 for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an explor...
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  • THE BIG SLEEP -5%
    THE BIG SLEEP
    RAYMOND CHANDLER
    Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first co...
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  • STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE AND OTHER TALES -5%
    STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE AND OTHER TALES
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. The res...
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    7,75 €7,36 €

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BOOKS -5%
    A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BOOKS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now...
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    11,75 €11,16 €

  • THE CALL OF THE WILD -5%
    THE CALL OF THE WILD
    JACK LONDON
    u003cpu003eLife is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survivial. Can he rise above his enemies and beco...
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  • THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS -5%
    THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
    JOHN WYNDHAM
    When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. The London he walks is crammed with groups of men and women needing help, some ready to prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop their spread the Triffids, mobile plants with lethal stinger...
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