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Penguin - News

Last updated 10.10.08

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Penguin launches SA prize

Penguin will launch an African writing prize and a Penguin African Writers series in 2009.The initiatives will mark the 20th...

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Tóibín off to Penguin

Penguin has acquired Man Booker-shortlisted novelist Colm Tóibín, previously...

 

Penguin buys epic trilogy

Penguin has pre-empted world rights to an epic trilogy written by British...

 

Penguin - In Depth

Last updated 25.01.08

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Hachette steals the show

So it wasn't the Grinch that stole Christmas. It was Hachette Livre. Several of its companies had spectacular festive seasons, transforming a hitherto flat year for the UK's largest consumer publishing group. Yet Tim Hely Hutchinson,...

David Davidar: Fighting the fanatics with fire

Many publishers secretly believe they could make it as authors. But how many are prepared to wake up at 4 a.m. every day, to squeeze in a couple of hours of writing before the working day begins? That's the regime that Penguin Canada president...

Field of dreams

Here's a Dick Whittington story in reverse. In bleak, late-1970s Britain, a regional newspaper circulation manager by the name of Peter Field was down on his luck. "There was a miners' strike, power cuts—it was...


Penguin - Blogs

Last updated 18.09.08

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Benedicte Page

New Hitchhiker: Is Fowl fair?

Eoin Colfer is a clever choice, a natural match for Douglas Adams, even if Hitchhiker fans think differently.

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JOHN MAKINSON

Warm waters

Why are publishers so poor at recruiting from outside the industry? They should be prepared to...

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Joel Rickett

Ten and out

Here's a gallop through some of the tradey changes that have happened in the decade – sometimes...

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