The Penultimate Peril

Dear Reader,

There is nothing to be found in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with caution...



      Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky.


      In The Penultimate Peril, the siblings face a harpoon gun, a rooftop sunbathing salon, two mysterious initials, three unidentified triplets, a notorious villain, and an unsavoury curry...


      In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted.


      Despite their wretched contents, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' has sold 60 million copies worldwide and been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey and a Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris. You have been warned.


      Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures?


      The Bad Beginning


      The Reptile Room


      The Wide Window


      The Miserable Mill


      The Austere Academy


      The Ersatz Elevator


      The Vile Village


      The Hostile Hospital


      The Carnivorous Carnival


      The Slippery Slope


      The Grim Grotto


      The Penultimate Peril


      The End


      And what about All the Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous and puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about:


      'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'


      'When Did you Last See Her?'


      'Shouldn't You Be in School?'


      'Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?'