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A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
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Category: Military History | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i ...Show more
Another Country (Popular Penguin) by James Baldwin
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting ...Show more
Anzac's Story (War Popular Penguin) by Roy A.I.F. Kyle
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Category: Military History | Series: War Popular Penguins
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
Appleby at Allington (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Innes
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Category: No Category | 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
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Category: Popular Penguins | 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
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Category: Popular Penguins | 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
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Category: Military History | 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
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Category: No Category | 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
Beowulf: Popular Penguins by Michael Alexander
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the I ...Show more