Penguin Readers Level 6: The Thursday Murder Club (ELT Graded Reader)

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With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Thursday Murder Club, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.

Meet Richard Osman’s famous group of pensioner-detectives: Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce and Ron. In The Thursday Murder Club, the group must try to connect the murders of two men they know and an extra body discovered in an old grave!

About Richard Osman

Richard Osman is an author, producer and television presenter. His first four novels in the Thursday Murder Club series were multi-million-copy record-breaking bestsellers around the world, and the fifth book, The Impossible Fortune, will publish in September 2025. We Solve Murders is the first book in a different series featuring a family detective duo, with more books to come. He lives in London with his wife, Ingrid, and their cats Liesl and Lottie. The movie adaptation for The Thursday Murder Club, produced by Amblin Entertainment, is due for release on Netflix in 2025.
Details
  • Series: Penguin Readers
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241700631
  • Length: 112 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 105g
  • Price: £7.99
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