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Appleby at Allington (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Innes
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington, who is new to the area. His curiosity is aroused when Allington mentions his nephew and heir to the estate, Martin Allington, whose name Appleby recognises. The evening comes to an end but just a ...Show more
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he ...Show more
Australia in Arms (War Popular Penguin) by Phillip Schuler
$9.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: War Popular Penguins
Phillip Schuler, alongside C.E.W. Bean, was one of Australia's key First World War correspondents. A soldier as well as a journalist, he died on 23 June 1917 of wounds received at Armentieres. His legacy was Australia in Arms, an extraordinary and evocative account of the Australian Imperial Force and t ...Show more
Beneath the Skin (Popular Penguins Crime) by Nicci French
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Three women's lives are stretched to breaking point as they are tracked by a cruel and malicious stalker. Zoe, Jenny and Nadia have nothing in common save the disturbing letters that probe their most vulnerable secrets, torturing them with their own fears. Unsure of who to trust, one by one their relati ...Show more
Berry and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins
This collection of short stories featuring 'Berry' Pleydell and his chaotic entourage established Dornford Yates' reputation as one of the best comic writers in a generation, and made him hugely popular. The German caricatures in the book carried such a sting that when France was invaded in 1939 Yates, ...Show more
Blood and Judgement (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Gilbert
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When the wife of a recently escaped prisoner is found murdered and partially buried near a reservoir, Patrick Petrella, a Metropolitan Police Inspector, is called in. Suspicion falls on the escaped convict, but what could have been his motive? Petrella meets resistance from top detectives at the Yard wh ...Show more
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Boy: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Korean edition of Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Jeong Hwoi Seong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Bulldog Drummond (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sapper
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if of a comparatively humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential...Reply at once Box X10.' Hungry for adventure following the First World War, Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond ...Show more
Cannery Row Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more