Today Penguin Random House UK has launched a new charitable partnership with Calibre Audio, ensuring our entire audio back catalogue – around 6,000 titles – and future releases are freely available to Calibre’s members. Calibre Audio is the only national charity in the UK to provide a completely free for life audiobook service to anyone […]

Today, Penguin Random House UK has announced the eight unpublished new writers invited to join this year’s WriteNow editorial programme. Chosen for the exceptional quality of their writing and book pitches, all eight writers hail from communities under-represented on the UK’s bookshelves. This year the programme was focused on finding writers working on middle grade, […]

The following Creative Student Prize submissions were shortlisted from over 400 entries from 14-18 year olds across the UK and Ireland, all responding to the question: what place do books have in your world? Amaal Fawzi ‘I write from a very personal position with infinite love for books and Beirut.’ Poet and guest judge Yomi Sode described […]