100 must-read classics, as chosen by our readers - Penguin Books …
May 26, 2022 · 7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) We said: One of the greatest and most prescient dystopian novels ever written, this should be on everyone’s must-read list. You said: Given the exponential growth of AI, Machine Learning & …
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Penguin Classics List. Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Fire Next Time James Baldwin. Going To Meet The Man James Baldwin. A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh. Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner. Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh. Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh.
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11 must-read classics for 9 to 12-year-olds - Penguin Books UK
Buy the book. The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (1973) The second book in The Dark is Rising Sequence, The Dark is Rising begins with 11-year-old Will Stanton having strange experiences just before Christmas. He later learns that he is one of the Old Ones – a clan of warriors who help battle the evil magic of the Dark.
24 must-read books for 9-12-year-olds - Penguin Books UK
Stolen History by Sathnam Sanghera (2023) Sathnam Sanghera has written an engaging and important introduction to the British Empire for readers aged 9+. The bestselling author of Empireland looks at Britain’s imperial history and how the …
What’s the perfect length for a book? - Penguin Books UK
Sep 22, 2020 · Ask Google ‘how long should a book be’ and the most popular search results nearly all say there’s a maximum of 100,000 words, with minimums varying from 60,000 to 90,000. Those figures (dependent on font and font size of course) give us that oft-cited length of 300 to 350 pages. Literary agent Juliet Mushens of Mushens Entertainment says ...
The best books of 2023, according to readers - Penguin Books UK
Nov 21, 2023 · Whether it came out in 2023 or not, these are the books you loved this year. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman. We said: The latest entry in Osman’s beloved Thursday Murder Club series is his most touching, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less wry or captivating than its predecessors. You said:
Getting Published - Penguin Books UK
Getting Published. The process of getting your first book published can often seem daunting. Even if you've completed the huge challenge of finishing your manuscript, it may feel difficult to know where to go next, or how to understand all the different components of the publishing process. Here, we've created a hub of information on everything ...
Mein Kampf - Penguin Books UK
Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the most notorious political tract of the twentieth century, a mixture of unreliable autobiography and half-baked political philosophy, which brought tragedy to Germany and the world.
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About us. The one you can’t put down. The one you’ll never forget. Some time ago – in 1934, to be precise – our founder was waiting for a train and couldn’t find anything good to read. What was needed, he realised, were quality books at a reasonable price. And so he decided to change things – the following year Penguin was launched ...