Popular Penguins: The Next 50
Brideshead Revisited
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, arist... Buy or find out more →
Monkey Grip
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In this acclaimed first novel, Helen Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends who are living and loving in new ways. Nora falls in love with Javo the junkie, and together they try to make sense o... Buy or find out more →
A Confederacy Of Dunces
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's f... Buy or find out more →
Summer Crossing
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Flame-haired Grady McNeil is beautiful, rich and defiant. Her privileged society life leaves her wanting, and excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. When G... Buy or find out more →
The War Of The Worlds
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object – only to be burned alive by heat-rays as ho... Buy or find out more →
Of A Boy
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian watches his subu... Buy or find out more →
The Well
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will ... Buy or find out more →
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure... Buy or find out more →
The Plague
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine, each responding in their own way... Buy or find out more →
A Room Of One's Own
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War an... Buy or find out more →
Tender Is The Night
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Dick and Nicole Diver have turned the French Riviera into the playground of the rich and glamorous. Among their circle is Rosemary Hoyt, the beautiful starlet, who is unaware of the corruption and dark secrets that haunt... Buy or find out more →
Picnic At Hanging Rock
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
While Joan Lindsay's haunting Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock is a work of fiction, the story is often considered one of Australia's greatest mysteries. In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private... Buy or find out more →
The Bodysurfers
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller ... Buy or find out more →
The Witches Of Eastwick
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The air of Eastwick breeds witches – women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick ... Buy or find out more →
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Úrsula, have started their new life. As the mysteriou... Buy or find out more →
Steppenwolf
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Times as a 'savage indictment of bourgeois society'. But, as the author notes in this edition, Steppenwolf ... Buy or find out more →
Shakespeare's Sonnets
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions – from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' as well... Buy or find out more →
Regeneration
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'Pat Barker's novel is not only a vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War. It is a multi-layered exploration of all wars, challenging assumptions about the relationship between doctors and patients, between t... Buy or find out more →
The Pigeon
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Jonathan Noel, bank security guard, has spent 30 years protecting himself from people and events. But an encounter with a glaring pigeon upsets his ordered life and flings him into a state of fear and insecurity. From th... Buy or find out more →
Wuthering Heights
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere . . . As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he ... Buy or find out more →
Persuasion
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found anyone to match Captain Wentworth. With her snobb... Buy or find out more →
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a... Buy or find out more →
Merry Go Round By The Sea
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years lat... Buy or find out more →
The Mayor Of Casterbridge
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Can you run away from who you are? Years ago Michael Henchard committed a terrible act in a fit of drunken rage. Now he has put his past behind him and become a respected member of the town of Casterbridge, but behind hi... Buy or find out more →
Madame Bovary
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies... Buy or find out more →
The Lucky Country
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of ... Buy or find out more →
Junky
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment in life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' Burrough's cult classic is a raw, semi-autobiographical account of drug addiction, which outraged Amer... Buy or find out more →
Journey From Venice
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The Serene City beckons, promising Paradise regained for Ruth Cracknell and her husband, Eric, as they set forth on a carefully planned holiday. What they are seeking is time. Time to think, time to gaze, time for each o... Buy or find out more →
Holding The Man
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The mid-seventies: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and... Buy or find out more →
Hell's Angels
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the roa... Buy or find out more →
Eva Luna
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love, during a time of political unrest ... Buy or find out more →
The Haunted Hotel
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess Narona marries Agnes Lockwood's fiancé and takes ... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of War
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the ... Buy or find out more →
And The Ass Saw The Angel
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid... Buy or find out more →
The Age Of Reason
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to conta... Buy or find out more →
Fever Pitch
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
For many people watching football is mere entertainment; to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick Hornby's devotion to the game has provided one of t... Buy or find out more →
How I Live Now
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even m... Buy or find out more →
Frankenstein
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to... Buy or find out more →
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of iniquity . . . The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of She... Buy or find out more →
Dracula
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face . . .... Buy or find out more →
Cannery Row
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists – survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Doc, who owns the laboratory, is the fount... Buy or find out more →
Harp In The South
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Ruth Park's classic novel Harp in the South is one of Australia's greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, whe... Buy or find out more →
Goodbye To All That
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days, to his time serving as a... Buy or find out more →
The Getting Of Wisdom
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Henry Handel Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom is the coming-of-age story of a spontaneous heroine who finds herself ensconced in the rigidity of a turn-of-the-century boarding school. The clever and highly imaginative ... Buy or find out more →
For The Term Of His Natural Life
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Scarcely out of print since the early 1870s, For the Term of His Natural Life has provided successive generations with a vivid account of a brutal phase of colonial life. The main focus of this great convict novel is the... Buy or find out more →
Farewell My Lovely
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married – until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day i... Buy or find out more →
Cold Comfort Farm
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders, an ecc... Buy or find out more →
The Chrysalids
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
As David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal the differences which would label them as mutants from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery, or flee to the terrif... Buy or find out more →
Cat's Cradle
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Dr Felix Hoenikker, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. He is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah's search for its whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker's three ... Buy or find out more →
Casino Royale
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Bond is sent to a casino in Royal-les-Eaux to disgrace the lethal Russian agent 'Le Chiffre' by ruining him at baccarat and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him, but he soon finds that his quarry is not content ... Buy or find out more →