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Things Fall Apart
2006 || Paperback || Chinua Achebe || Penguin
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan.But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists.
The Myth of Sisyphus
2005 || Paperback || Albert Camus || Penguin
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution.
They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a ro...
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The Wealth Money Can't Buy
The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life
2024 || Paperback || Robin Sharma || Penguin
Lady Chatterley's Lover
2022 || Paperback || D. H. Lawrence || Penguin
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford.
Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she...
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Red Famine
Stalin's War on Ukraine
2018 || Paperback || Anne Applebaum || Penguin
In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of th...
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A World Without Work
Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
2024 || Paperback || Daniel Susskind || Penguin
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2020
The Sunday Times Best Business Books of the Year 2020
The Times of London Best Business Books of the Year 2020
The Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020
Fortune Magazine Best Business Book of the Year 2020
FiveBooks.com Best Non-Fiction of 2020
Inc.com Best New Business Books of 2020
'A path-breaking, thought-provoking and in-depth study of how new technology will transform the world of work' Gordon Brown
'Compellin...
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
2019 || Paperback || Greta Thunberg || Penguin
"Just 16, Greta Thunberg is already one of our planet's greatest advocates." --Barack Obama
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations General Assembly
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of ...
Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
2024 || Ongedefinieerd || Simon Sinek || Penguin
Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it.Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way - they all started with why.Simon Sinek explains the framework needed for businesses to move past knowing what they do to how they do it, and then to...
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A Therapeutic Journey
Lessons from the School of Life
2024 || Paperback || Alain de Botton || Penguin
AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETTFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of LifeA healthy mind knows how to hope, hanging on tenaciously to the reasons to keep going. A healthy mind resists unfair comparisons, not allowing others’ successes to throw it off course. A healthy mind avoids catastrophic imaginings, distinguishing worries of what could happen from what likely will.
Just as there is no such thing as a human being who will never become physi...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business
2021 || Paperback || Donald S Passman || Penguin
From Apple to Youtube, Google Play to Spotify, the music industry has seen monumental changes in past decades. Record labels have had to adapt to the demand for instantly accessible, low-cost music whilst coping with significant increases in music piracy. But what do these changes mean for aspiring and established artists? Donald Passman is one of the most trusted music lawyers in the world.
In this easy-to-use manual, he draws upon his unparalleled experience to provide a clear-eyed explanat...