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'Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land' Sunday TimesWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the...

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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm T ib n.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most rec...

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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'On the day ...

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'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm T ib n, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in ...

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An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm T ib n__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm T ib n takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats an...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, ne...

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A Guest at the Feast is Colm T ib n's touching memoir. A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author's early adulthood, from a love of literature to...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013From the author of Brooklyn comes a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history.In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cata...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Colm T ib n's touching memoir, A Guest at the Feast, beautifully read by the author himself.A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and famil...

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A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an ex...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Master by Colm Toibin, read by William Hope.In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns...

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Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis La...

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'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had no...

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From Colm T ib n comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm T ib n not only explores the often tense relationship between w...

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* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, ...

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Laforgue felt his body tremble. What can be keeping them? Has the Commandant refused? Why has he not sent for me? Is this God's punishment for my lie about my hearing? Father Laforgue, an idealistic Jesuit, embarks on a desparate mission to reliev...

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'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times. Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to l...

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