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Inspector West Takes Charge (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Extortion is the name of the game. In this first story of the Inspector West series, the Scotland Yard officer has to get to the bottom of a blackmail bid against the Dreem cigarette factory. With those behind the attempt prepared to murder anyone who might get in their way, Inspector West has to unrave ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Young Adult | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Popular Penguins by Ken Kesey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
Pel and the Paris Mob (Popular Penguins Crime) by Mark Hebden
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn't the flocking descent of rival policemen that makes Pel's blood boil - crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles. Pel unravels the riddle of the robbery on the road to ...Show more
Presumed Innocent (Popular Penguins Crime) by Scott Turow
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When a woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment, sadly, it's another day on the job for prosecutor Rusty Sabich. When that woman turns out to be a colleague, things start looking grim, and when that woman, Carolyn Polhemus, is identified as Rusty's lover, things become downright complicated. Sc ...Show more
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sir John Mortimer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A respected Pakistani doctor is imprisoned on suspicion of being a terrorist, and the British government refuses to release any information to Rumpole regarding the evidence against him. The case appears hopeless and it is almost certain that the accused will remain incarcerated indefinitely without tri ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
The Art of War: Popular Penguins by Sun Tzu
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb ...Show more