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As you all know, the Vintage Bollinger Prize will be awarded on 1 December alongside the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. This magnificent 'winner of winners' award will be chosen from our side-splitting past recipients.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
As you all know, the Vintage Bollinger Prize will be awarded on 1 December alongside the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. This magnificent 'winner of winners' award will be chosen from our side-splitting past recipients.
This Halloween, we celebrate Mary Shelley, who wrote what is widely considered to be the first work of science fiction, aged only 19: Frankenstein. If you can’t wait for Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation to drop on Netflix, dive now into this groundbreaking novel...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This Halloween, we celebrate Mary Shelley, who wrote what is widely considered to be the first work of science fiction, aged only 19: Frankenstein. If you can’t wait for Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation to drop on Netflix, dive now into this groundbreaking novel...
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A classic, to reread and consider in the light of the grim mess the West is in…..
In Heart of Darkness, Conrad explores the corrupting influence of power and racism in a horrifying story of colonial exploitation. Marlowe's encounter with Kurtz, an idealist crazed by power, prompts him to reflect on the eponymous darkness at the heart of all men www.penguin.co.uk/books/372993...
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM
A classic, to reread and consider in the light of the grim mess the West is in…..
Reposted by Everyman’s Library
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Cheers to Last Acts being shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 🥂
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Cheers to Last Acts being shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 🥂
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
What ho! We are delighted to share this year's shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Which will you pick up first?
Chair of the judges Peter Florence said: “Whichever novel wins will be a comic banger Wodehouse might enjoy.” Our winner will be announced on 1st Dec 🍾
Chair of the judges Peter Florence said: “Whichever novel wins will be a comic banger Wodehouse might enjoy.” Our winner will be announced on 1st Dec 🍾
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What ho! We are delighted to share this year's shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Which will you pick up first?
Chair of the judges Peter Florence said: “Whichever novel wins will be a comic banger Wodehouse might enjoy.” Our winner will be announced on 1st Dec 🍾
Chair of the judges Peter Florence said: “Whichever novel wins will be a comic banger Wodehouse might enjoy.” Our winner will be announced on 1st Dec 🍾
Few authors reach the brilliance of Toni Morrison. Beloved, a spellbinding portrait of a woman haunted by the past, may be her best loved novel of all, and our Everyman's Library edition is presented with an introduction from A. S. Byatt. #BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/373082...
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Few authors reach the brilliance of Toni Morrison. Beloved, a spellbinding portrait of a woman haunted by the past, may be her best loved novel of all, and our Everyman's Library edition is presented with an introduction from A. S. Byatt. #BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/373082...
The Intuitionist is Colson Whitehead’s debut novel. Set in a darkly comic otherworld, heroine Lila Mae, the very first Black female elevator inspector, must clear her name and discover the secret formula of the Perfect Elevator at the same time. #BHM www.penguin.co.uk/books/457478...
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The Intuitionist is Colson Whitehead’s debut novel. Set in a darkly comic otherworld, heroine Lila Mae, the very first Black female elevator inspector, must clear her name and discover the secret formula of the Perfect Elevator at the same time. #BHM www.penguin.co.uk/books/457478...
Nella Larsen was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In her brilliant literary career, Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belong
#BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/456310...
#BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/456310...
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Nella Larsen was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In her brilliant literary career, Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belong
#BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/456310...
#BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/456310...
Award-winning writer Ben Okri curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present.
Read stories by Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/461896...
#BHM
#BlackClassics
Read stories by Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/461896...
#BHM
#BlackClassics
October 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Award-winning writer Ben Okri curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present.
Read stories by Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/461896...
#BHM
#BlackClassics
Read stories by Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/461896...
#BHM
#BlackClassics
Not long left to get 25% off your waterstones.com pre-order of our 2026 titles Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, our Langston Hughes collection and Irish Stories. Just add the code OCTOBER25 when you check out online
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October 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Not long left to get 25% off your waterstones.com pre-order of our 2026 titles Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, our Langston Hughes collection and Irish Stories. Just add the code OCTOBER25 when you check out online
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From today until 17 October, get 25% off at waterstones.com with code OCTOBER25 when you pre-order Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks & The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes and Irish Stories
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October 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
From today until 17 October, get 25% off at waterstones.com with code OCTOBER25 when you pre-order Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks & The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes and Irish Stories
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Today, we publish Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Cather’s childhood in Nebraska left her with a lasting appreciation of America’s frontiers and, in Death Comes for the Archbishop, she transports us to New Mexico alongside our protagonist, Latour www.penguin.co.uk/books/372908...
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Today, we publish Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Cather’s childhood in Nebraska left her with a lasting appreciation of America’s frontiers and, in Death Comes for the Archbishop, she transports us to New Mexico alongside our protagonist, Latour www.penguin.co.uk/books/372908...
This week, we publish Party Stories, a festive collection of celebrations and soirees in literature. From Natasha’s first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to Hoover consorting with Capote in DeLillo’s ‘The Black and White Ball’. www.penguin.co.uk/books/469040...
October 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This week, we publish Party Stories, a festive collection of celebrations and soirees in literature. From Natasha’s first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to Hoover consorting with Capote in DeLillo’s ‘The Black and White Ball’. www.penguin.co.uk/books/469040...
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802, the son of a formerly enslaved man from Haiti and an innkeeper’s daughter. While employed by the future French king, he wrote his best-known works, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/405885...
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
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#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802, the son of a formerly enslaved man from Haiti and an innkeeper’s daughter. While employed by the future French king, he wrote his best-known works, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/405885...
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
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#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
This Black History Month, we’re celebrating some of the best loved and most acclaimed Black writers. Where better to start than with Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God.
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics
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#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics
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October 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This Black History Month, we’re celebrating some of the best loved and most acclaimed Black writers. Where better to start than with Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God.
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics
www.penguin.co.uk/books/408974...
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics
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What ho! We're celebrating 25 years of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with a special vintage edition. Please welcome Claudia Winkleman, Patrick Grant, Sindhu Vee, Tatty Macleod and, our Chair of Judges, Peter Florence.
Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec!
#BEWPrize25
Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec!
#BEWPrize25
September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What ho! We're celebrating 25 years of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with a special vintage edition. Please welcome Claudia Winkleman, Patrick Grant, Sindhu Vee, Tatty Macleod and, our Chair of Judges, Peter Florence.
Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec!
#BEWPrize25
Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec!
#BEWPrize25
In Heart of Darkness, Conrad explores the corrupting influence of power and racism in a horrifying story of colonial exploitation. Marlowe's encounter with Kurtz, an idealist crazed by power, prompts him to reflect on the eponymous darkness at the heart of all men www.penguin.co.uk/books/372993...
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In Heart of Darkness, Conrad explores the corrupting influence of power and racism in a horrifying story of colonial exploitation. Marlowe's encounter with Kurtz, an idealist crazed by power, prompts him to reflect on the eponymous darkness at the heart of all men www.penguin.co.uk/books/372993...
Today, we publish a collected edition of Joyce Cary’s Sara Monday trilogy: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth. These unforgettable narrative voices offer a sweeping vision of the early 1900s that is lyrical, profane, tragic, and comic all at once www.penguin.co.uk/books/469581...
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Today, we publish a collected edition of Joyce Cary’s Sara Monday trilogy: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth. These unforgettable narrative voices offer a sweeping vision of the early 1900s that is lyrical, profane, tragic, and comic all at once www.penguin.co.uk/books/469581...
On Thursday, we publish Fruits of the Earth. This cornucopia of harvest poetry includes many beloved old chestnuts, including Robert Frost’s ‘After Apple-Picking’, Emily Dickinson’s ‘Forbidden Fruit a flavor has’, and William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/471850...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/471850...
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
On Thursday, we publish Fruits of the Earth. This cornucopia of harvest poetry includes many beloved old chestnuts, including Robert Frost’s ‘After Apple-Picking’, Emily Dickinson’s ‘Forbidden Fruit a flavor has’, and William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/471850...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/471850...
In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, lured South by tales of buried treasure, Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead embarks on a personal odyssey. Raised by a status-obsessed father and dealing with a friend bent on racial revenge, now it's Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/373035...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/373035...
September 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, lured South by tales of buried treasure, Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead embarks on a personal odyssey. Raised by a status-obsessed father and dealing with a friend bent on racial revenge, now it's Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/373035...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/373035...
Sons and Lovers, once dismissed as little more than pornography, is now regarded as DH Lawrence’s autofiction masterpiece. Set in his native Nottinghamshire, it is a compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372841...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372841...
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Sons and Lovers, once dismissed as little more than pornography, is now regarded as DH Lawrence’s autofiction masterpiece. Set in his native Nottinghamshire, it is a compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372841...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372841...
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the first to be written, when Jane was just twenty-one.
Revised for publication 13 years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the charming heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372820...
Revised for publication 13 years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the charming heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372820...
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the first to be written, when Jane was just twenty-one.
Revised for publication 13 years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the charming heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372820...
Revised for publication 13 years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the charming heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372820...
Today we publish Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.
This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it is also a fairy tale, an epic, a treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470836...
This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it is also a fairy tale, an epic, a treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470836...
September 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Today we publish Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.
This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it is also a fairy tale, an epic, a treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470836...
This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it is also a fairy tale, an epic, a treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470836...
We’re heading back to school and university this month, with a collections of classics that many of us first encountered as student readers.
Which will you revisit?
📚 Pride and Prejudice
📚 Heart of Darkness
📚 Great Expectations
📚 Sons and Lovers
📚 Song of Solomon
Which will you revisit?
📚 Pride and Prejudice
📚 Heart of Darkness
📚 Great Expectations
📚 Sons and Lovers
📚 Song of Solomon
September 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We’re heading back to school and university this month, with a collections of classics that many of us first encountered as student readers.
Which will you revisit?
📚 Pride and Prejudice
📚 Heart of Darkness
📚 Great Expectations
📚 Sons and Lovers
📚 Song of Solomon
Which will you revisit?
📚 Pride and Prejudice
📚 Heart of Darkness
📚 Great Expectations
📚 Sons and Lovers
📚 Song of Solomon