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Penguin Group UK is made-up of: Penguin
Press, which is comprised of Allen Lane, Reference, Penguin Classics
and Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin
General which covers adult titles and publishes under the Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph and Viking imprints; our children's divisions, Puffin, Ladybird
and Warne; ePenguin, our
ebooks imprint; Rough Guides; travel and music and Dorling Kindersley, which covers illustrated titles for adults and children.
PENGUIN PRESS
Reference
Penguin is one of the best-known names in reference
publishing with an astonishingly rich list that extends
from Roget's
Thesaurus and Pears
Cyclopaedia to dictionaries on subjects as diverse
as psychology, science, symbols and saints. |
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Penguin
Classics
Over fifty years ago, in January 1946, the Penguin
Classics list was launched with E V Rieu's translation of the Odyssey.
The series now includes over 800 titles including the best in English, American, European, classical and non-western literature and an extensive list of important philosophy, religion, history, politics, travel and art titles. January 2003 sees the relaunch of the classics list for the first time in eighteen years. |
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Penguin
Modern Classics
January 2000 saw the start of the re-launch of the
Twentieth Century Classics list into Modern
Classics. The list, now completely re-designed, houses
the most remarkable range of modern literature in the
English speaking world - from the key British and American
writers of the century to the greatest works of translation.
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PENGUIN GENERAL
BOOKS
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Penguin Paperbacks
The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in
1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes).
Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously,
but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest
possible audience. Penguins now range from Booker-prize
winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers,
with successful history, biography and general non-fiction
as well. |
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Hamish
Hamilton
Founded in 1931, Hamish Hamilton is one of Britain's
most distinguished literary lists. Now an integral part
of Penguin, it provides a home for an exciting and eclectic
group of authors, united by the distinctiveness and excellence
of their writing. Publishing no more than twenty new titles
a year, both fiction and non-fiction, authors
include
Alain de Botton,
William Boyd,
Esther Freud,
Toby Litt,
Redmond O'Hanlon,
W.G. Sebald,
Zadie Smith,
William Sutcliffe,
Paul Theroux and
John Updike. |
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Michael Joseph
Michael Joseph publishes market focussed popular fiction
and non-fiction. The fiction list includes thrillers,
crime, contemporary women's reads, romance and humour.
The non-fiction list embraces celebrity autobiography,
showbiz, current affairs, popular history, comedy, sport,
cookery, self-help and mind/body/spirit. Principally interested
in Top Ten bestsellers, authors include:
Tom Clancy,
Clive Cussler,
Nicci French,
Jane Green,
Graham Hancock,
Lisa Jewell,
Felicity Kendal,
Marian Keyes,
Jamie Oliver,
Jeremy Paxman,
Lesley Pearse,
Robyn Sisman,
Sue Townsend
and many more. |
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Viking
Viking publishes the widest possible range of literary
fiction and non-fiction. The fiction range spans from
the highly literary and sometimes experimental
(Saul Bellow,
Anita Brookner,
Jim Crace,
Helen Dunmore)
to the more commercial
(Nick Hornby,
John Mortimer,
Barbara Vine).
In non-fiction, the range covers current affairs, history
(Antony Beevor),
biography
(Sarah Bradford,
Claire Tomalin),
belles lettres, travel and sport. |
PENGUIN AUDIOBOOKS
| The publishing list of Penguin Audiobooks
reflects the diversity of the Penguin book range, including
classic and contemporary fiction and non fiction, autobiography,
poetry, drama and, through our Puffin Audiobooks imprint,
the best of contemporary and classic literature for younger
listeners. In addition to our book-related activities,
we are proud to have published comedies such as Men
Behaving Badly, Victoria Wood, Birds of
a Feather and Ben Elton and to have led the
way in promoting audiobooks on CD, to offer spoken word
to as wide an audience as possible. |
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PUFFIN
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Puffin is the UK's leading
publisher of children's books and one of its best-loved
brands. The publishing programme spans novelty books for
the very young and picture books through to teenage fiction,
and poetry and non-fiction through to film and TV tie-ins.
Puffin publishes an award-winning range of best-selling
authors including
Janet & Allan Ahlberg,
Eric Carle,
Eoin Colfer,
Roald Dahl,
Anne Fine,
Dick King-Smith and
Melvin Burgess.
Puffin also has strong relationships with many other leading media companies, including Disney and Dreamworks. |
WARNE
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Frederick Warne was founded and
eponymously named in 1865 by an entrepreneurial bookseller.
Originally specialising in illustrated books, it remained
a family-run firm right up until 1983, when it was acquired
by Penguin Books.
Warne's best-known author was Beatrix
Potter, creator of the world-famous Peter
Rabbit Books. Since its acquisition by Penguin,
Warne has focused on the development of Beatrix Potter
and other book-based children's character properties;
it now manages an international programme of publishing,
licensing and entertainment.
Eric Hill's much loved Spot; Ladybird picture books (who celebrated 20 years of fun in 2000); Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies, first
published in 1923; Kathleen Hale's Orlando the Marmalade
Cat and the charming nursery illustrations of Dutch
artist Henriette Willebeek le Mair make up the rest
of the current portfolio.
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EPENGUIN
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September 2001 saw the
launch of ePenguin, a range of ebooks that reflects the
breadth and integrity of the Penguin catalogue. Packed
with the best in fiction, science writing, business titles,
reference books and a full selection of Penguin Classics
and Rough Guides, ePenguin extends the Penguin tradition
of innovative, quality publishing into the digital age. |
DORLING KINDERSLEY
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Dorling Kindersley is an international
publishing company specializing in the creation of high
quality, illustrated information books, interactive
software, TV programmes and online resources for children
and adults.
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ROUGH GUIDES
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Rough Guides are the highly acclaimed publishers of travel writing. As well as travel guides, Rough Guides produce a series of dictionary phrasebooks covering two dozen major languages, an acclaimed series of music guides, and a range of reference books on topics as diverse as the Internet, pregnancy and unexplained phenomena.
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