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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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he reached for the function key that would call up the
programming file for Serial Killer Detective, but never had
a chance to push it. She frowned when the screen suddenly
went black, then froze as the scrawled red message
appeared on her screen.

Want to play a game?

She straightened slowly, her eyes glued to the words on the monitor
that simply shouldn't be there; not unless she'd called up the game file, and even then, not until she'd moved to the second screen. Glitch, she thought. It has to be a glitch. But even knowing that, for a moment she still felt that old fear tiptoeing up her spine, prickling at the back of her neck, paralyzing her. The past ten years vanished in an instant, leaving the younger Grace that still lived in her mind huddled in a dark closet, trembling uncontrollably, being very, very quiet.

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