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lsquo;I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back on my own life hellip;rsquo; Self-taught and ambitious, Darwin genuinely believed he was lsquo;below the common standard in intellectrsquo; and had gained little from formal education. Yet he also knew he had seized his one great...

Sylvia Day's Passion for the Game is a tale of deception, lust and deadly desire in Georgian England. Maria, Lady Winter, is coerced into using her searing beauty and siren body to find out why dangerous pirate Christopher St. John has been let out of jail. But pirate St. John's only chance of avoiding the hangman is to use his renowned seduction...

Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of...

In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who#8217;s #8216;got her hooks into a rich man#8217;s pup#8217;. Before too long Marlowe#8217;s up to his neck in corpses and cops and he#8217;s taken pity on the girl. There#8217;s nothing like...

For the ultimate "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" fan comes the ultimate guide to all 100 episodes of "Clone Wars". "Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episode Guide" provides you with a complete visual overview of all 100 episodes of the hit TV show. Every single episode has its own page featuring plot synopsis, key characters, spaceships, vehicles, weapons,...

Georgie Sinclair's husband has left her; her sixteen-year-old son is busy exploring fundamentalist Christian websites and becoming more distant by the day; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World aren't looking too appealing either. So when she spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a...