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Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes
$9.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
At Scamnum Court, seat of the Duke of Horton, the Lord Chancellor of England is murdered at the climax of a private presentation of Hamlet, in which he plays Polonius. To solve this crime, Inspector Appleby pursues some of the most famous names in the country, unearthing dreadful suspicion.
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
$12.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbs's house, a small dog is t ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Inspector West Takes Charge (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
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Category: No Category | 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
Jane Eyre Pink Popular Penguin Edition by Charlotte Bronte
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre to this day entrances readers with its passionate portrayal of a woman struggling to make a life for herself in a cruel and indifferent world. As orphan Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, she falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester, only to discover that he has ...Show more
Jonah and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
These are some of Dornford Yates' early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just as successful and popular as Berry and Co. had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across France, and helped to establish Yates' repu ...Show more
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In the early stages of the Second World War, a British engineer and arms expert holds secret talks with the Turkish government. Shaken by an attempt on his life, he departs for home on an Italian freighter, with the knowledge that Nazi assassins aim to prevent his return. Friend and foe become quickly i ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret (Popular Penguins Crime) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When his uncle, Sir Michael Audley marries a beautiful and enigmatic young woman, Richard suppresses his misgivings. But the strange behaviours of Lady Audley and the suspicious disappearance of his friend, George Talboys, lead him to explore her mysterious past - with grave consequences.
Lady Chatterley's Lover: Popular Penguins by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by Doris Lessing.Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless ...Show more