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The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
$9.95 AUD
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Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers joins his friend Davies on a yachting expedition in the Baltic. But Davies has more on his mind than killing fowl. As they navigate the waters and treacherous, shifting sands on board the Dulcibella, Carruthers learns the real reason behind their trip - a ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more
The Shiralee (Popular Penguin) by D'Arcy Niland
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Everyone has their cross to bear – their swag, their shiralee – and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who has to suffer his resentment at having her in tow. But then, he discovers that the ties that bind can be as much a comfort as a burden, and wha ...Show more
The Thin Man (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
$12.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In prohibition-era New York, Nick Charles plans to enjoy a quiet Christmas with his glamorous wife, Nora, their Schnauzer, Asta, and a case of good scotch. But the bullet-riddled corpse of a former lover, a missing inventor and a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns force him out of retire ...Show more
The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
Trent's Last Case (Popular Penguins Crime) by E. Clerihew Bentley
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Category: Crime | 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
Tropical Issue (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dorothy Dunnett
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Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Rita Geddes is a dyslexic make-up artist whose appearance seems to change with the weather. She is called to Johnson Johnson's apartment to fix the make-up of the famous Natalie Sheridan. However, Johnson, who is seemingly recovering from an accident, which turns out to be a murder attempt, is also pres ...Show more
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more