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To see the list of our great Penguin authors from Jane Austen to Benjamin Zephaniah simply select a letter from the line-up below. Why not click on a random letter and discover someone new too?

In Conversation

Get the low-down on our authors with top interviews, Podcasts, features and quick-fire Q&A's.

Superfreakonomics Legend of a Suicide Don't Swallow Your Gum And Another Thing...

Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, authors of Superfreakonomics, on reading Twilight and on who would win an arm-wrestling match between them...

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David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide, reflects on the novel as an account of his father's suicide and explores the pull of Alaska in his writing.

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Will going out in cold weather make you ill? Find out in the Q&A with Dr. Aaron Carroll and Dr. Rachel Vreeman, authors of Don't Swallow Your Gum.

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Eoin Colfer, author of the sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy And Another Thing..., on what Artemis Fowl would have made of Zaphod and Arthur Dent...

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The Wild Things

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Extracts

Browse our book pages for extracts, take a peek and see if they are your cup of tea!

The Brightest Star in the Sky

"June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday. I've been flying over the streets and houses of Dublin and now, finally, I'm here. I enter through the roof."

Read an extract from Keyes' latest novel, The Brightest Star in the Sky.