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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers'' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.Harold Fry lives a quiet, ordinary life in England. But when he gets a phone call and learns that his old friend Queenie Hennessey is dying, he decides to post her a letter to her home 500 miles away. As he walks to the post box, Harold begins to think about his past and his family. He decides on walking until he reaches Queenie.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Discover the brand-new novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author: a tense family drama set in the Italian lakes perfect for fans of Ann Patchett and Maggie O'Farrell.'Rachel Joyce is a masterful storyteller.' - Sarah Winman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Still Life'Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape.' - Sunday Times''If only there were more novelists like Rachel Joyce' - TelegraphThere is a heatwave across Europe.Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead. And when they arrive there is no sign of his new wife or his final painting.Alhough the siblings have always been close, the things they learn that summer - about themselves, their father and their new stepmother - will drive them apart before they can come to any kind of understanding of what their father's legacy truly is.Wonderfully atmospheric and suspenseful, this is at heart a novel about family, about sibling relationships: what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever.

When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, ‘Even though you’ve done your travelling, you’re starting a new journey too.’ Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning.Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, with a mischievous bite, this is a novel about the journey we all must take to learn who we are; it is about loving and letting go. And most of all it is about finding joy in unexpected places and at times we least expect.

Brought to you by Penguin.Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn''t end there.Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, ten years later, an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, and this time it is Maureen''s turn to make her own journey. But Maureen is not like Harold. She struggles to bond with strangers, and the landscape she crosses has changed radically. She has little sense of what she''ll find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she must get there. Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North is a deeply felt, lyrical and powerful novel, full of warmth and kindness, about love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves and our lives a little better. While it stands in its own right, it is also the exquisitely moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued with The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.© Rachel Joyce 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

A sparkling seasonal anthology of BBC dramas and readingsChristmas is the perfect time to curl up with a good story, and this cracking collection brings you 30 wonderfully diverse tales inspired by this most special of seasons. From Santa Claus, gift-giving and family gatherings, to an unexpected encounter in a snowstorm and an alternative take on the Nativity, they''re sure to get you in the festive mood.Here are modern readings of classics such as Charles Dickens'' ''A Christmas Tree'', Anton Chekhov''s ''At Christmas Time'', Hans Christian Andersen''s ''The Fir Tree'', O Henry''s ''The Gift of the Magi'', Elizabeth Gaskell''s ''Christmas Storms and Sunshine'' and Leo Tolstoy''s ''Papa Panov''s Special Christmas''. Alongside them is some superb short fiction by contemporary authors, including Stella Duffy (''South''), Paul McVeigh (''Daddy Christmas''), Laura Barnett (''Survivors''), and nine delightful stories by Alexander McCall Smith. Among the stellar narrators are Don Gilet, Nina Sosanya, Hannah Gordon, Stephanie Cole and Meera Syal.Interspersed with these are a range of spellbinding plays, including Rachel Joyce''s poignant Christmas by the Lake; festive action comedy Lena Marsh, Live and Schticking! by Jeremy Front; a very unusual and very dangerous Santa in The Morpeth Carol by Timothy X Atack; and Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips'' epistolary animal tale, Some Hay in a Manger, introduced by Stephen Fry. All feature star casts including Niamh Cusack, Robert Lindsay, Sam Troughton, Clare Corbett, Tamsin Greig and Joel Fry.Heartwarming and heartfelt, comic and bittersweet, moving and magical, these fantastic, evocative stories are a real Christmas treat.Note: Chapter metadata updated in January 2023. ContentsChristmas by the Lake by Rachel JoyceChristmas Short Stories by Alexander McCall Smith:· ''Motordrome''· ''The Revenge, or Otherwise, of Herbie Bontemps''· ''How to Escape in Gaelic''· ''The Colourful Life of Cousin Grace''· ''Good President Wenceslas''The Christmas Present by Ben CromptonChristmas Compass: Series 1:· ''North'' by Malachy Tallack· ''South'' by Stella Duffy· ''East'' by Ruth Thomas· ''West'' by Mike McCormackA Time to Dance by Lucy GannonChristmas Compass: Series 2 by Alexander McCall Smith· ''Winter Journey''· ''In the DRC''· ''Primatologist''· ''On The Island''Midnight at Christmas by Elliott Kerrigan''The Fir Tree'' by Hans Christian Andersen''At Christmas Time''by Anton Chekhov''Papa Panov''s Special Christmas'' by Leo TolstoySome Hay in a Manger by Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips''Daddy Christmas'' by Paul McVeigh''Christmas Storms and Sunshine''by Elizabeth GaskellThe Morpeth Carol by Timothy X Atack''Survivors'' by Laura BarnettLena Marsh, Live and Shticking!by Jeremy Front''A Christmas Tree'' by Charles Dickens''The Gift of the Magi'' by O HenryGet Santa by Peter Gibbs''Home'' by Christine Dwyer Hickey© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd