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‘A Prologue That Could Also Be An Epilogue’– Otto Dov Kulka revisits Auschwitz
Otto Dov Kulka’s remarkable memoir Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death explores the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust and a childhood spent in Auschwitz. Excerpted below is the...
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Remembering WW1: Clive Aslet’s ‘War Memorial’
Who were the men and women whose names are commemorated on war memorials around the country? Where did they live – and how and why did they die? In his book, War Memorial, Clive Aslet tells the story...
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Remembering WW1: Jeremy Paxman on the outbreak of war
‘Nothing would ever be the same in their lives and nothing was ever the same in the life of the country.’ 100 years to the day, Great Britain’s Great War author Jeremy Paxman writes about the outbreak...
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Think Smarter on… The Establishment: Dear Leader
Read an exclusive extract from Dear Leader, the memoir from former North Korean propagandist, Jang Jin-Sung, detailing his escape from the country. Sign up to the Think Smarter newsletter for a chance...
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Rule Breakers
‘They relied on their faith in ideas and their belief that words matter.’ Charlotte Gordon, prize-winning poet and biographer, tells the Penguin Blog about the rule breakers that were Mary...
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#notsilent: Remembering Anne Frank
On Tuesday 14 April, Penguin will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of Anne Frank’s death alongside the Anne Frank Trust UK. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before...
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Happy birthday to us! #Penguin80
80 years ago this summer, in 1935, Penguin came into being, with the publication of the very first Penguin paperbacks. They were colour coded (orange for fiction, blue for biography, green for crime)...
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The story behind… the first Penguins.
You’ve probably heard that we’re celebrating a rather big birthday this month, but do you know where our famous covers came from? Read an extract from Penguin by Design and discover how the design of...
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75 years of George Orwell’s Animal Farm
2015 marks the 75th anniversary since George Orwell’s chilling fable of idealism betrayed, Animal Farm was first published. To commemorate this important anniversary Penguin Classics has republished...
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5 of London’s Most Unusual Literary Landmarks
You’ve heard of The Old Curiosity Shop and Shakespeare’s Globe, but what about the statue of Dr Samuel Johnson’s cat or the inspiration behind Orwell’s Ministry of Truth? Author of London: A Travel...
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Robin Stevens on Agatha Christie at 125
In the week of the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s birth, Robin Stevens explains why the Queen of Crime’s books are perfect reading for sleuths big and small. Robin Stevens It’s no secret that...
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Extract: To Hell and Back, Ian Kershaw
Read an extract from To Hell and Back, Ian Kershaw’s compelling new narrative of events in Europe from 1919-1949. War and the Economy: Learning Lessons Each of the world wars was a catastrophic,...
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Extract: The White Road
In The White Road, acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest – a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden,...
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The Face of Britain- Suffragettes
In The Face of Britain, art historian and journalist Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, and unveils the secrets of some of the nation’s best loved works of art. In this extract,...
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The Sound of Hammers
British popular culture has maintained an influence over the world long after the decline of the British Empire, from Bond and the Beatles to Catherine Cookson and Coronation Street, from Harry Potter,...
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From Page to Screen…
Long have authors had their stories reimagined by the magic of lighting, actors and mise en scène. From To Kill a Mockingbird to the recently released Suffragette, film adaptations have always made for...
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The Face of Britain- Jane Morris
In The Face of Britain, art historian and journalist Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, and unveils the secrets of some of the nation’s best loved works of art. In this extract,...
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On the discovery of witches…
With All Hallow’s Eve almost upon us, read an extract from The Book of Magic Brian Copenhaver’s new anthology of the history of the tradition of magic from antiquity to the enlightenment, in which...
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Which witch is which?
What better way to celebrate the up-coming All Hallow’s Eve than with a guide to some of our favourite witches in literature – from the conjuring of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters to the blue spit of...
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‘Mr Rogers, the authorities want to speak to you.’
Header image © Adam Jones In an extract from Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads, author and human rights activist Benedict Rogers recalls his unceremonious exit from Burma in 2011. In March 2011, I...
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