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The promotion of reading as the premier source of entertainment, excitement and empowerment is a responsibility that Penguin continues to feel proud to carry.
Ever since Allen Lane founded the company in the mid-1930s with the express intention of taking quality books to the masses, Penguin has been seen by people worldwide as the natural home of reading. In May 2003, almost half of the nation's favourite 100 books voted for in the BBC Big Read were Penguin titles.
7 July 2003, Penguin launches a campaign to encourage everyone to read more ...
Read on for full details.
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his is not a shopping guide: it's a book about
shopping - a sort of Joy of Sex for shops, with fewer
beardy men with stiffies. It's not going to tell you to go to
blissful Peter Jones - although obviously you should,
frequently - to buy wool or hosiery. It's not going to direct
you to Harvey Nicks, because it assumes that you know
where it is, and what it's for (footballer's wives. Only
joking! It bee a big fancy shop in that there Lunnun).
There are no great long lists of stores I think you ought to
frequent, but, scattered here and there, there are incidental
boxes. I am extremely pleased with these boxes. They contain gems:
the very best, and frequently quite obscure, shopping addresses I have
gathered in the course of my research.
I am sharing my shopping Good News, evangelically. You want pants that'll take 2 inches off your waist without (crucially) redistributing the podge onto your lower back or - eeooo - upper thighs? You want cream that gets rid of snog-rash? Cherry cake to die for? A country house to rent for half-term? Look in the boxes. The boxes rock - and ought to be helpful wherever you live, thanks to the goodness of online shopping and mail order.
Read more ...
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