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Pacelli, Eugenio - Pope Pius XII
• Guide for Living: Selected Addresses and Letters of His Holiness Pope Pius XII 

Pagels, Elaine
• The Gnostic Gospels

Paglia, Camille
• Sex and Violence or Nature and Art
(P60, from Sexual Personae)
• Vamps and Tramps: New Essays
• Sex, Art, and American Culture

Pakenham, Thomas
• Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798
• Meetings with Remarkable Trees

Palgrave, Francis Turner (ed.)
• Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of Love Poems
(P60, from Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics)
• The Golden Treasury

Palin, Michael, Alan Lee and Richard Seymour
• The Mirrorstone

Palmer, Matthew
• Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner

Panjabi, Camellia
• 50 Great Curries of India

Pappe, Ilan
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Parker, Derek and Julia
• The New Compleat Astrologer

Parker, Geoffrey
• The Military revolution: Military innovation and the rise of the West 1500-1800
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare (ed.)

Parkin, Lance
• Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore

Parkinson-Bailey, John J.
• Manchester: An Architectural History

Parody, A.
• Eats, Shites and Leaves

Parragon Books
• 100 Best Slow Cooker Dishes

Parris, Matthew (ed.)
• Scorn with Extra Bile

Parsons, Michael J.
• How We Understand Art: A Cognitive Account of Aesthetic Experience

Patten, Chris
• East and West

Pausanias
• Guide to Greece, Volume 1: Central Greece
• Guide to Greece, Volume 2: Southern Greece
(Translated by Peter Levi)

Paxman, Jeremy
• The English: A Portrait of a People

Payne, Robert
• The Roman Triumph

Peake, Mervyn
• Gormenghast
(Comprising Titus Groan; Gormenghast; Titus Alone)

Pearce, Joseph
• Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
• Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc
• Tolkien: Men and Myth
• Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief
• Catholic Literary Giants

Pearse, Patrick
• The Coming Revolution: The Political Writings and Speeches of Patrick Pearse

Pease, Allan
• Body Language

Peddie, John
• Hannibal’s War

Pekar, Harvey and Joseph Remnant
• Harvey Pekar's Cleveland

Pender, Paddy
• St Michen's Parish: A view outside ourselves

Pendlebury, J.D.S.
• A Handbook to the Palace of Minos at Knossos
(Foreward by Sir Arthur Evans, introduction by Sir John Myres and Sir John Forsdyke)

• The Penguin Atlas of British & Irish History

Pepys, Samuel
• The Concise Pepys

Percy, Walker
• The Moviemaker
• Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
• Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays

Perelman, S.J.
• The Most of S.J. Perelman

Perlmutter, David D.
• Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyber Age

• Perspective and Theory of Shadows

Peters, Edward (ed.)
• The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials

Peterson, Bryan
• Understanding Exposure

Petrie, W. M. Flinders
• The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh

Pfaff, William
• Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends
• The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism

Philby, Kim
• My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
(Introduction by Philip Knightley, foreward by Graham Greene)

Philidor, A.D.
• Analysis of the Game of Chess

Phillips, E.D.
• The Mongols

Phillips, J.R.S.
• The Medieval Expansion of Europe

Phillips, Justin
• C.S. Lewis at the BBC

Phillips, Brig. Gen. T.R.
• Roots of Strategy: The Five Greatest Military Classics of All Time
(Comprising Sun Tzu, The Art of War; Vegetius, The Military Institutions of the Romans; Maurice de Saxe, My Reveries upon the Art of War; The Instructions of Frederick the Great for his Generals; The Military Maxims of Napoleon)
• Roots of Strategy, Book 2
(Comprising Col. Ardent du Picq, Battle Studies; Carl von Clausewitz, Principles of War; A.H. Jomini, The Art of War)

Philpott, William
• Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century

Picard, Gilbert and Colette
• The Life and Death of Carthage
(Translated by Dominique Collon)
• Daily Life in Carthage at the time of Hannibal
(Translated by A.E. Foster)

Pinckaers, Servais
• Morality: The Catholic View

Pinker, Steven
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Pirsig, Robert M.
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Lila: An Enquiry into Values

Pitcher, George
• A Time to Live: The Case against Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Pitre, Brant
• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist

Plato
• The Symposium
(Translated with an introduction by W. Hamilton)
• The Republic
(Translated with an introduction by Desmond Lee)
• The Republic
(Edited by G.R.F. Ferrari, translated by Tom Griffith)
• The Last Days of Socrates
(Euthyphro; Crito; Apology of Socrates; Phaedo)
(Translated with an introduction by Hugh Tredennick)
• Phaedo
(Translated with an Introduction and notes by David Gallop)
• Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito
(Edited with notes by John Burnet)
• Complete Works

Plautus
• The Rope and Other Plays
(The Ghost; A Three-Dollar Day; The Rope; Amphitryo)
(Translated with an introduction by E.F. Watling)

Playboy editors
• The Playboy Book of Humor and Satire

Plimpton, George (ed.)
• The Paris Review Interviews: Women Writers at Work

Plutarch
• The Age of Alexander
(Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert)
• The Fall of the Roman Republic
(Translated by Rex Warner, with introductions and notes by Robin Seager)
• Lives: Vol. 1.
(Theseus: Romulus; Lycurgus; Numa Pompilius: Solon; Poplicola; Themistocles; Camillus; Pericles; Fabius; Alcibiades; Coriolanus; Timoleon; Aemilius Paullus; Pelopidas; Marcellus; Aristides; Marcus Cato)
• Lives: Vol. 2
(Philopoemen; Flamininus; Pyrrhus; Marius; Lysander; Sulla; Cimon; Lucullus; Nicias; Crassus; Sertorius; Eumenes; Agesilaus; Pompey; Alexander; Caesar)
• Lives: Vol. 3
(Phocion; Cato the Younger; Agis; Cleomenes; Tiberius Gracchus; Gaius Gracchus; Demosthenes; Cicero; Demetrius; Antony; Dion; Brutus; Aratus; Artaxerxes; Galba; Otho)
(This set of Plutarch’s Lives is the so-called ‘Dryden Edition’, revised and with an introduction by Arthur Hugh Clough)

Poe, David R.
• French Kisses

Poe, Edgar Allan
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Poffley, Frewin
• Greek Island Hopping 2000

Póitéir, Cathal (ed.)
• The Great Irish Famine

Poliakoff, Stephen
• Shooting the Past

Pollard, Alfred W.
• The Romance of King Arthur
(Abridgment of Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, illustrated by Arthur Rackham)

Polo, Marco
• The Travels
(Translated with an introduction by R.E. Latham)

Polybius
• The Rise of the Roman Empire
(Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Selected and with an Introduction by F.W. Walbank)
• The Histories I
• The Histories II
• The Histories III
• The Histories IV
• The Histories V
• The Histories VI
(Loeb edition, six volumes translated by W.R. Paton)

Pomeroy, Sarah B.
• Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity

Ponting, Clive
• 1940: Myth and Reality
• Churchill

Popham, A.E.
• The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci


Popper, Karl
• The Poverty of Historicism

Pöpper, Thomas
• Michaelangelo: The Graphic Work

Porter, Roy
• London: A Social History

Portis, Charles
• True Grit

Potter, Simeon
• Our Language

Poundstone, William
• How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle: How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
• Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb

Powell, Dilys
• The Villa Ariadne

Power, Richard
• The Hungry Grass

Powers. J.F.
• Wheat that Springeth Green
• Morte D'Urban

Pratchett, Terry
• Strata
• The Carpet People
• The Bromeliad
(Truckers; Diggers; Wings)
The Discworld Books
• The Colour of Magic
• The Light Fantastic
• Equal Rites
• Mort
• Sourcery
• Wyrd Sisters
• Pyramids
• Guards! Guards!
• Eric
• Moving Pictures
• Reaperman
• Witches Abroad
• Small Gods
• Lords and Ladies
• Men at Arms
• Soul Music
• Interesting Times
• Maskerade
• Feet of Clay
• Hogfather
• Jingo
• The Last Continent
• Carpe Jugulam
• The Fifth Elephant
• The Truth
• Thief of Time
• The Last Hero
(Illustrated by Paul Kidby)
• The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
• Night Watch
• The Wee Free Men
• Monstrous Regiment
• A Hat Full of Sky
• Going Postal
• Thud!
• Wintersmith
• Making Money
• Unseen Academicals
• I Shall Wear Midnight
• Snuff
• Rising Steam
• The Shepherd's Crown
• A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

Pratchett, Terry, and Briggs, Stephen
• The Discworld Companion
• The Streets of Ankh-Morpork
• The Discworld Map
• Wyrd Sisters: The Play

Pratchett, Terry, and Briggs, Stephen / Graham Higgins
• Guards! Guards!

Pratchett, Terry, and Brown, Irana
• Lords & Ladies, adapted for the stage

Pratchett, Terry, and Kidby, Paul
• The Pratchett Portfolio
• The Art of Discworld

Pratchett, Terry, Stewart, Ian, and Cohen, Jack
• The Science of Discworld

Pratt, Hugo
• Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
• Corto Maltese: Les Celtiques

Presas, Remy
• Modern Arnis: The Filipino Art of Stick Fighting

Pressfield, Stephen
• Gates of Fire

Prince, Stephen
• The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa

Pritchett, V.S.
• The Pritchett Century: A selection of the best of V.S. Pritchett

Pritchard, D. Byrne
• The Right Way to Play Chess

Prunty, Jacinta
• The monasteries, magdalen asylums and reformatory schools of Our Lady of Charity in Ireland, 1853-1973

Psychoundakis, George
• The Cretan Runner
(Translated and introduced by Patrick Leigh Fermor)

Puddicombe, Andy
• Get Some Headspace

Pullman, Philip
• Northern Lights
• The Subtle Knife
• The Amber Spyglass
• The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage

Purdy, Martina
• Room 21: Stormont behind closed doors

Purser, Philip
• Friedrich Harris: Shooting the Hero

Puttnam, Robert D.
• Better Together: Restoring the American Community

Pythons, The
• The Pythons Autobiography