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No Name in the Street
2024 || Paperback || James Baldwin || Penguin Books Ltd
There are Rivers in the Sky
2025 || Paperback || Elif Shafak || Penguin Books Ltd
There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris – their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
2002 || Paperback || Andrew George || Penguin Books Ltd
The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, predates Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties ...
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
2024 || Paperback || David Graeber || Penguin Books Ltd
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Homer and His Iliad
2024 || Paperback || Robin Lane Fox || Penguin Books Ltd
Joseph Andrews & Shamela
1999 || Paperback || Henry Fielding || Penguin Books Ltd
"Shamela" is a parody of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela", in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. "Joseph Andrews", Fielding's first novel, can also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out to seduce her comically chaste servant Joseph.
Reading Lessons
An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us
2025 || Paperback || Carol Atherton || Penguin Books Ltd
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The Power Paradox
How We Gain and Lose Influence
2024 || Paperback || Prof. Dacher Keltner || Penguin Books Ltd
A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about power It shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat green vegetables or ask for a promotion at work. But how do we really gain and maintain power - through coercion or cooperation? What does it do to our behaviour? And what makes us lose power? In twenty revolutionary 'power principles', renowned psychologist Dacher Keltner turns everything we thought we knew about influence and status upside down,...