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Wuthering Heights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Emily Brontë
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'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events tha ...Show more
Wuthering Heights - Penguin Red Classic by Emily Bronte
Category: No Category | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere. As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-mean ...Show more
Xpd by Len Deighton
Category: No Category | 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
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
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William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more
Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton
Category: No Category | 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...
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Marias
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it' Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night-club, he finds himself ...Show more
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias
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Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scen ...Show more
Youth by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
Category: No Category | 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
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Gr ...Show more