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Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
$12.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke. For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as His Natural Life), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian his ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
High Fidelity: Popular Penguins by Nick Hornby
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl ...Show more
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
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Category: Classic 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
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'The poem that defined a generation'Guardianon 'Howl' 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his n ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
It's Raining in Mango: Popular Penguins by Thea Astley
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where thousands of hopefuls are digging for gold in the mud. The family confronts the horror ...Show more
Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
Lolita: Popular Penguins by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent step-daughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in the 1950s; yet the novel was also celebrated for its beautifully lyrical writing. Almost fifty years a ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, i ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr J ...Show more