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The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins
  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143566533
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 252
  • RRP: $15.99
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The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins

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When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by a meteor shower.

Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids – huge, venomous, plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh – can have their day.  This stark vision of a desolate world infested by deadly, monstrous plants has lost none of its power to horrify.
  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143566533
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 252
  • RRP: $15.99
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About the author

John Wyndham

John Wyndham was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Information and afterwards served in the Army. The Day of The Triffids was published in 1951, and was followed by many other famous works of science fiction, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos. Wyndham died in 1969.
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