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The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins by John Wyndham
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Getting of Wisdom: Popular Penguins by Henry Handel Richardson
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
$9.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy ...Show more
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes): Popular Penguins by Henri Alain-Fournier
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever. ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
The Penrose Mystery (Popular Penguins Crime) by R. Austin Freeman
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzling gems, which he won't insure. When Dr Thorndyke is alerted to a burglary at his house, a scrap of paper is found with the word 'lobster' on it and two Latin words, and Penrose has fled in panic after a car accident. The police are clearly mys ...Show more
The Perfect Murder (Popular Penguins Crime) by H. R. F. Keating
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
What terrible luck to be investigating the perfect murder at the beginning of his career with the Bombay Police, thinks Inspector Ghote. First he must deal with the influential tycoon, Lala Verde, his investigation beset on all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption. As if that's not enough, he must t ...Show more
The Plague: Popular Penguins by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
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Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more
Trent's Last Case (Popular Penguins Crime) by E. Clerihew Bentley
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When a scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house, two immediate matters confound amateur detective Philip Trent: why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth, and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? The newly widowed Mabel Manderson - 't ...Show more