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  • Trunk
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    Trunk

    Ryeo-ryeong, Kim

    Now a major Netflix Series, the Korean feminist satire by the award-winning, bestselling author, Kim Ryeo-ryeong **NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES, STARRING GONG YU AND SEO HYUN-JIN ** Read the...
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  • Gulliver's Travels
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    Gulliver's Travels

    Swift, Jonathan

    Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this...
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  • I Served The King Of England
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    I Served The King Of England

    Hrabal, Bohumil

    A whirlwind of comic genius and moving poignancy following the rise and fall of one small, outrageous man, from the Czech Republic's master storyteller. 'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera ...
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  • Fatale
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    Fatale

    Manchette, Jean-Patrick

    Radical, ruthless - and razor-sharp. Welcome to the brutal, revolutionary crime thrillers of Jean-Patrick Manchette, reissued by Vintage Classics in a major new celebratory series 'The French noir...
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  • World of Jeeves
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    World of Jeeves

    Wodehouse, P.G.

    'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry 'A comic master' David Walliams 'Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale . . . A world for us to...
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  • Handful of Dust
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    Handful of Dust

    Waugh, Evelyn

    Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World...
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  • Final Edition
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    Final Edition

    From an original member of The Chaser newspaper (and published by the team behind The Chaser and Shovel Annual) comes The Final Edition - a satirical newspaper-style book in the tradition of The...
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  • Trad Wife
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    Trad Wife

    Schaefer, Saratoga

    A 'traditional wife' influencer allows a strange being to impregnate her in this unnerving horror novel, perfect for fans of My Best Friend's Exorcism and Head Full of Ghosts Every #tradwife needs a...
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  • Flatland
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    Flatland

    Abbott, Edwin

    A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A work that still poses provocative...
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  • Cat's Cradle
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    Cat's Cradle

    Vonnegut, Kurt

    A brilliant science-fiction satire from one of the best writers of the twentieth century Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which...
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  • Handful of Dust
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    Handful of Dust

    Waugh, Evelyn

    Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.' After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda...
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  • Old Bertie
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    Old Bertie

    Osborn, Dan

    Old Bertie is J.D. Salinger meets Taika Waititi, with a sprinkling of George Orwell. It asks readers to consider how much power a 15-year-old girl might wield in a world that demands complete...
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  • 1984
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    1984

    Orwell, George

    A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the dystopian masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of...
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  • Pride and Prejudice
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    Pride and Prejudice

    Austen, Jane

    The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered...
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  • All God's Creatures
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    All God's Creatures

    Anthony Gardner

    Mild-mannered editor Ben Fairweather is horrified when his genteel religious magazine is taken over by a fanatical movement that believes animals are closer to God than humans and should receive Holy...
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  • Maverick Pig
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    Maverick Pig

    Xiaobo, Wang

    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers...
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    Love Junkie

    Plunket, Robert

    'One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era' The Nation Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquee, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life...
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  • Rhetoric of Brexit Humour
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    Rhetoric of Brexit Humour

    Simon Weaver

    Since 2016 there has been an outpouring of humour, comedy and satire on the United Kingdom’s EU Referendum and decision to leave the EU, or Brexit. This book examines the relationship between Brexit...
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  • Rhetoric of Brexit Humour
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    Rhetoric of Brexit Humour

    Simon Weaver

    Since 2016 there has been an outpouring of humour, comedy and satire on the United Kingdom’s EU Referendum and decision to leave the EU, or Brexit. This book examines the relationship between Brexit...
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  • Lucian on Reading, Performing, and the Difference
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    Lucian on Reading, Performing, and the Difference

    Stephen E. Kidd

    Lucian’s writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucian’s dialogues and stories.Lucian...
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  • Just Another Dead Boy
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    Just Another Dead Boy

    Kelly McCaughrain

    A heart-pounding romance with a twist for fans of Ali Hazelwood and They Both Die at the End by a multiple award-winning, Carnegie-shortlisted author. "A heartbreaking and uplifting story of falling...
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  • Word and the World
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    Word and the World

    Michael Mulkay

    First published in 1985, The Word and the World is a significant, empirically-based contribution to the sociological analysis of scientists’ discourse and scientific culture. It also offers a radical...
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  • Comedy and Social Science
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    Comedy and Social Science

    Cate Watson

    While there have been many sociological and psychological studies of humor, few can claim to be funny. Humor may be regarded as a legitimate topic for social scientists, but in general, they present...
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  • Flipping Patriarchy
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    Flipping Patriarchy

    Man Who Has It All

    An explosive satire of gender stereotypes that flips patriarchy on its head to highlight sexist double standards.Exploring subjects like work and comedy, history and sport, the beauty industry and...
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  • A Passion for Passion
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    A Passion for Passion

    Alice Fraser

    A Passion for Passion is a love letter to romance fiction. It celebrates the joyful silliness of books that are written to follow the rules.Alice Fraser has a special place in her heart for the...
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  • State of Ridicule
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    State of Ridicule

    Dan Sperrin

    A history of political satire in English literature from its Roman foundations to the present day Satire is a funny, aggressive, and largely oppositional literature which is typically created by...
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