I first fell in love with the art of paperback covers at school in the 1970s. I had always adored books and had been brought up in a house packed to the rafters with them – and, much to my ...

We’ve all read a Penguin book at some point in our lives, whether a ladybird book or a good old Penguin Classic. As one of the world’s biggest publishers, it’s no surprise that Penguin Random House ...

Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

head of design at Penguin’s Illustrated Books, who worked on the new series. “When Penguin Books launched with ten colour-coded books in 1935, ‘Crime’ was a deep green colour, which to me always ...

Elegiac poetry deals primarily with mortality, so The Penguin Book of Elegy might be seen as the inevitable – if much-delayed – sequel to George MacBeth’s The Penguin Book of Sick Verse (1963). That ...

I thought it might be interesting to see how The Penguin stacks up against essentially every other comic book/superhero show in the modern era (the last decade or so), in terms of how it’s scored.

In his penetrating and deeply personal introduction to the much-anticipated Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories, the Korean-born literary critic Kwon Youngmin recounts a formative episode from his ...