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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
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Category: Crime & Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Br ...Show more
Transit by Anna Seghers; Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, that explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary com ...Show more
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - to look after him. But what follows is a blo ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
Xpd by Len Deighton
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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
Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton
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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...
Youth by Tove Ditlevsen; Anon
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
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Category: Fiction | 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