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For the very first time, one of the UK’s most-loved chefs celebrates the most wonderful time of the year with a book to ...
12/11/2025

For the very first time, one of the UK’s most-loved chefs celebrates the most wonderful time of the year with a book to cosy up and hunker down with.

With over 100 recipes, Rick Stein’s Christmas serves up everything from unmissable classics to fresh new dishes, alongside reflections on his remarkable culinary career and the special memories, family moments, and festive traditions he has cherished over the years.

Olivia Laing's latest novel The Silver Book is out now!A q***r love story and a noirish thriller, The Silver Book transp...
12/11/2025

Olivia Laing's latest novel The Silver Book is out now!

A q***r love story and a noirish thriller, The Silver Book transports readers to 1970s Italy, a world of film sets, desire, and deception. When a young English artist meets famed designer Danilo Donati in Venice, he’s swept into the glittering illusion of Italian cinema, where nothing is as it seems.

From the author of Crudo and Everybody, The Silver Book explores the dangerous interplay between art and truth, illusion and reality, love and power.

07/11/2025

The much anticipated memoir 'of sorts' from Margaret Atwood has arrived!

From her childhood in the Canadian far north, through the writing of The Handmaid's Tale, to her position today as revered truth-teller, Book of Lives encompasses the life and work of one of our most influential literary icons.⁠
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‘A memoir is what you can remember, and you remember mostly stupid things, catastrophes, revenges, and times of political horror, so I put those in – but I also added moments of joy, and surprising events and, of course, the books. I hope you’ll have as much fun reading Book of Lives as I did writing it.’ - Margaret Atwood⁠

If not for yourself, this would make a fabulous gift for the upcoming holiday season!

For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention. Casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, litera...
07/11/2025

For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention. Casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life.

Attention brings Anne’s wide-ranging cultural criticism, literary and autobiographical writing together for the first time. In Enright’s fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate. In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.

OUT NOW!

A huge congratulations to Barbara Else and Ross Calman, who have each been recognised at the Prime Minister’s Awards for...
06/11/2025

A huge congratulations to Barbara Else and Ross Calman, who have each been recognised at the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2025. Barbara received the award for fiction and Ross for non-fiction 👏

Both have made lasting contributions to Aotearoa’s literary landscape, through Barbara’s much-loved Go Girl and Tales of Fontania and Ross’s work as a writer and translator of te reo Māori and New Zealand history.

As Kent Gardner, Chair of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, says:
“While most writing awards are tied to a specific piece of work, these awards recognise the writers as individual practitioners with successful careers in the literary sector. We’re celebrating bodies of work that are the result of years of application to the art and craft of writing.”

We’re so proud to celebrate two of our Penguin authors being honoured for their outstanding contributions to New Zealand literature.

HIS 30TH ADVENTURE HAS ARRIVED!Jack Reacher is never looking for trouble, but trouble always finds him.In Exit Strategy,...
06/11/2025

HIS 30TH ADVENTURE HAS ARRIVED!

Jack Reacher is never looking for trouble, but trouble always finds him.

In Exit Strategy, what should have been three simple stops in one day quickly unravels into something far more dangerous. A mysterious note appears in his pocket, a desperate plea for help that pulls Reacher into a deadly web of deception and revenge.

As the Daily Mirror put it:
“If there is a more iconic character in modern fiction than Jack Reacher, I’d like to meet them.”

Comment below how many of the 30 Jack Reacher novels you've read 👇

03/11/2025

After more than 40 years working with animals, expert trainer and behaviourist Mark Vette reveals why cats are among the most extraordinary and misunderstood creatures...

In his new book Cat Zen, OUT TODAY, Mark shares the astounding story of cats and shows how, with the right understanding, you can raise a gentle, resilient, and sociable companion. From guiding your kitten through their critical early period to helping adult cats overcome behavioural challenges, this book will help you see your feline friend with new eyes.

Discover the secrets of your cat’s inner world in Cat Zen 🐾

From the global bestseller of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon, in James Norbury's gorgeous new book our two friends return to ...
02/11/2025

From the global bestseller of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon, in James Norbury's gorgeous new book our two friends return to undertake a journey in search of the most beautiful place in the world.

Through beautiful illustrations and a simple tale inspired by Buddhist philosophy, Norbury draws our gaze back to the simple pleasures and helps us to find hope in the most unlikely places.

From the latest Jack Reacher thriller to essays from literary icons to a mesmerising and frightening tale of witchcraft...
01/11/2025

From the latest Jack Reacher thriller to essays from literary icons to a mesmerising and frightening tale of witchcraft, there are so many great new reads coming out this month!

What's on your reading list for November?

Martha Mullins is a misfit. Academic and shy, Martha finds herself fascinated by the underworld, a place she learns abou...
31/10/2025

Martha Mullins is a misfit. Academic and shy, Martha finds herself fascinated by the underworld, a place she learns about in Roman mythology classes at school. To Martha, the underworld and its divine inhabitants provide a place of refuge, escape, imagination and desire.

But Martha also finds joy in friendship. Connection. Intimacy. It’s Martha’s band of friends who show her the value in spontaneity, fun, laughter.

Until things go wrong.

How will Martha find her way in the world where she cannot be herself? Will she ever find a home for the love she feels?

'The Underworld' is a wondrous novel from an author who wields her considerable powers with assuredness and grace. Funny, brave, insightful and clever, Martha will break your heart – then mend it – many times over.

The fully updated edition of the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century explaining the Earth, the univ...
30/10/2025

The fully updated edition of the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century explaining the Earth, the universe, everything in-between.

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them.

One family, one year and a novel that reminds us what it means to be beautifully, messily human.💛 'Infectiously funny an...
29/10/2025

One family, one year and a novel that reminds us what it means to be beautifully, messily human.

💛 'Infectiously funny and surprisingly moving, Wreck reminds us that we are each, in our way, trying to make sense of the big things with some very small tools' - Rachel Joyce, bestselling author of The Homemade God

💛 'Gorgeously human, tender-hearted, and delightfully funny' - Nussaibah Younis, bestselling author of Fundamentally

💛 'The kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep... like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it.' - Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People

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