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The Handmaid's Tale - Vintage Classics by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. ______________________________________ 'What we did was terrible, ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
I have no use for forgiveness, not yet. But other ideas like that, kindness, for example, I think that is fundamental. Resurrection; I like that too. And love, of course, love, love, love.'Alice Murray learns to play the piano aged three on an orange orchard in rural Australia. Recognising her daughter? ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down...let's have a little fun...' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, ...Show more
The God Delusion: 10th Anniv. Edition by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind (#1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Bks.
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; William Bynum (Editor, Notes by, Introduction by); Janet Browne (Editor); Damien Hirst (Illustrator)
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's classic treatise on his theory of evolution and natural selection and is among the most important works in the history of science and evolutionary biology. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Guns Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic Ser. | Reading Level: good
"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads- 'Opens at Nightfall, Closes at Dawn' the sun disappears beyond the horizon, all over the tents small lights begin to ...Show more