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Penguin Random House

All news and comment on Penguin Random House, since the company formed in the 2013 merger of publishers Penguin and Random House.

March 2024

  • Jack Chadwick with Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton

    ‘Three big flukes’: how Penguin ended up republishing a 1934 Rochdale plasterer’s tale

    Bartender who found Caliban Shrieks in a library says chance encounters helped him get Jack Hilton’s story back in print

October 2023

  • Books are on display during a read-in and rally against book bans in Tallahassee, Florida in March this year.

    Penguin Random House launches high schoolers’ award to combat book bans

    The publisher’s $10,000 Freedom of Expression prize invites teens to write about a banned book that changed their life, against a backdrop of rising censorship

July 2023

  • Jackets of: Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida; Annie Ernaux’s Simple Passion; Jess Arndt’s Large Animals; Percival Everett’s The Trees; Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time; Isabel Waidner’s Sterling Karat Gold; Shola von Reinhold’s Lote; Olga Ravn’s The Employees; Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand.

    The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

    Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

April 2023

  • Woman browses book in vending machine

    Quick lit: vending machines dispense false eyelashes, milk – and now books

    The UK vending market, having recovered from lockdown, is experiencing huge growth – but is not yet in Japan’s league

March 2023

  • Salt and vinegar or Stanley Tucci … the new book vending machine at Exeter St David’s station.

    Train tomes: Exeter St Davids station opens book vending machine

    Penguin Random House has installed a machine in the Devon city’s station, enabling travellers to buy a changing raft of titles, inspired by company founder Allen Lane

January 2023

  • Spare by Prince Harry, Barnes and Noble.

    Prince Harry’s memoir Spare shifts more than 1.4m copies in a day

    The much-anticipated account of the troubled prince’s life has broken publisher’s previous record for first-day sales in the UK, US and Canada

November 2022

  • Stephen King<br>FILE - Author Stephen King arrives at federal court before testifying for the Department of Justice as it bids to block the proposed merger of two of the world's biggest publishers, Penguin Random House and Simon &amp; Schuster, Aug. 2, 2022, in Washington. Through the first week of trial, top publishing executives at Penguin Random House, Simon &amp; Schuster and elsewhere, along with agents and such authors as Stephen King have shared opinions, relived disappointments and revealed numbers they otherwise would have preferred to discuss privately or confide on background with reporters. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

    Paramount scraps $2.2bn sale of Simon & Schuster publishing to Penguin

  • The Penguin logo on the spines of books on a shelf.

    The Guardian view on the book publishing industry: no one size fits all

October 2022

  • Amy Coney Barrett with Donald Trump after being sworn on to the court in October 2020.

    Open letter to top publisher condemns $2m Amy Coney Barrett book deal

    More than 250 literary figures protest against acquisition by Penguin Random House of book by conservative US supreme court justice

August 2022

  • A book published by Simon &amp; Schuster is displayed on Saturday, July 30, 2022, in Tigard, Ore. The government and publishing titan Penguin Random House are set to exchange opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial Monday as the U.S. seeks to block the biggest U.S. book publisher from absorbing rival Simon &amp; Schuster. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

    ‘This must be stopped’: US begins court battle against publishing giants’ merger

    The justice department is seeking to block the $2.2bn merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

May 2022

  • Bono

    Bono to release memoir about ‘the people, places and possibilities’ of his life

  • Dolly Parton celebrating her Imagination Library.

    Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to give books to refugee children

April 2022

  • Bernardine Evaristo, Marina Lewycka and Jasper Fforde.

    Waterstones launches scheme to raise £1m for Ukraine

    Bernardine Evaristo and Jasper Fforde are among the authors whose books will be sold to raise money for Oxfam’s appeal

November 2021

  • Bill Nighy

    Bill Nighy to narrate Terry Pratchett’s footnotes in new Discworld recordings

    The actor will bring Pratchett’s ‘personal commentary’ to life in a star-studded re-recording of all 40 Discworld audiobooks, featuring narrators from Indira Varma to Andy Serkis

September 2021

  • a man browses the shelves at Waterstones

    Booksellers warn over Christmas supplies amid UK lorry driver shortage

    Shops build up stocks early to offset bottlenecks as publishers warn Brexit and pandemic are delaying distribution

July 2021

  • simon akam

    ‘A terrifying precedent’: author describes struggle to publish British army history

  • Harry smiles looking back

    Buckingham Palace shudders at prospect of more of Prince Harry’s truth

April 2021

  • American writer and biographer Blake Bailey is photographed at Hotel Palomar in Los Angeles Thursday, April 11, 2013. Bailey’s has written a new biography, “Farther &amp; Wilder” about novelist Charles Jackson. (Photo by Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

    Publisher halts Philip Roth book amid sexual abuse claims against biographer

    WW Norton to pause shipping Blake Bailey’s authorised biography as women claim Bailey groomed them as their high-school teacher

March 2021

  • Pile of books

    The Guardian view on the writing business: readers must ultimately benefit

  • Penguin logo, Hillary Clinton book and Stephen King books

    Authors fear the worst if Penguin owner takes over Simon & Schuster

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