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Goodbye to All That (War Popular Penguin) by Robert Graves
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: War Popular Penguins
In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. ...Show more
Greenmantle (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A cryptic message launches Major Richard Hannay into another adventure of intrigue, espionage, and danger. Setting out across war-torn Europe, and travelling to the heart of the Middle East, Hannay and his friends Sandy Arbuthnot, Peter Pienaar, and John S. Blenkiron must penetrate enemy lines, quell a ...Show more
Gun Before Butter by Nicolas Freeling
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
$9.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very goodgood
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Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
How Language Works: Popular Penguins by David Crystal
$9.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins500 | Reading Level: very good
David Crystal's How Language Worksis a fascinating tour through the world of language from one of today's most renowned experts. It ranges over everything from how children learn to read to what makes words rude or polite, from eyebrow flashes to whistling languages. Unlocking the secrets of communicati ...Show more
How We are Hungry (Popular Penguin) by Dave Eggers
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own McSweeney's magazine and through its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendant. Yet while celebrating the work of others, Eggers has also proved himself time and again one of the modern masters of ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$12.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$12.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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
Inspector West Takes Charge (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Jonah and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | 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