In 2010, the BBC interviewed a Wiltshire man named Steve Hare who'd been collecting Penguin paperbacks so assiduously that he'd amassed over 15,000 titles. In fact, they no longer fit inside his home, ...

The penguin, the myth, the legend. As the publisher celebrates 90 years, Anna Moloney takes a look at the company that ...

The evocative aesthetic of the Penguin paperback is one of the great design stories of publishing. Not content with creating a distinct graphic identity that has endured over seven decades, Penguin is ...

Sixty-five years ago, when post-war austerity was at its grimmest, Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, whose aim as a publisher was to make the best available to the many at a price they could ...

THIS year's Man Booker Prize was awarded on October 14th to "The Narrow Road to the Deep North", Richard Flanagan's harrowing tale of Australian prisoners of war in Burma. Like most of the titles ...