Penguin Readers Level 6: The Thursday Murder Club (ELT Graded Reader): Abridged Edition - Softcover

Osman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241700639 ISBN 13: 9780241700631

Publisher: Penguin, 2025

Synopsis

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 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!

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About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2025
• ISBN 10: 0241700639
• ISBN 13: 9780241700631
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112