Penguin Readers Level 6: The Thursday Murder Club (ELT Graded Reader): Abridged Edition
By (Author) Richard Osman
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Penguin Books Ltd
25th March 2025
27th February 2025
Abridged edition
United Kingdom
Young Adult
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Comic (humorous) crime and mystery
Paperback
112
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 10mm
105g
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language. 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!
Richard Osman is an author, producer and television presenter. His first four novels, The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died Twice and The Bullet That Missed were multi-million-copy record-breaking bestsellers around the world. We Solve Murders is the first book in a new series featuring a family detective duo. He lives in London with his wife, Ingrid, and their cat Liesl.