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20 unusual facts about Penguin books


A Short History of Christianity

First published in 2012 by Penguin Books, it describes the history of Christianity, from its foundations to the present day.

Bhagavata Purana

Edwin Bryant published an English translation of Book X in 2003, through Penguin Books.

Castle House, Usk

Newman J., The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (2000) Penguin Books

Club 57

Reynolds, Simon: Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Penguin Books, February 2006, pgs.

Daivathinte Vikrithikal

It was translated to English under the title God's Mischief by Penguin Books in 2002.

Department of Education Building

#JM Freeland, “Architecture in Australia, A History, 1974, Penguin Books

Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis

1963 - (with R. J. Forbes) History of Science and Technology (2 vols., Penguin Books)

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Despite Prozac Nations phenomenal success as an international bestseller, Wurtzel was nonetheless taken to court by her publisher Penguin in September of 2012 in an effort for the publisher to reclaim a $100,000 advance for a 2003 book contract for, "a book for teenagers to help them cope with depression" which Wurtzel failed to complete.

For the Liberation of Brazil

It was then published in English by Penguin Books in 1971 as part of their "Pelican Latin American Library" series and with more material than the French version.

Frank Bury

The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs 2002 Edition, London, New York: Penguin Books.

Frank Norman

The Penguin collection The Lives of Frank Norman (1972) contains extracts from four of his previously published autobiographical books.

Germano Facetti

Germano Facetti (5 May 1926 – 8 April 2006) was an Italian graphic designer who headed design at Penguin Books from 1962 to 1971.

Ghost Box Music

Releases on the label (currently encompassing The Focus Group, Eric Zann, Belbury Poly, Roj, Pye Corner Audio and The Advisory Circle, and a rerelease of a Mount Vernon Arts Lab album) tend to share a common design aesthetic - all record covers so far have been by Julian House, with an acknowledged debt to the iconic design of sixties Penguin Books paperbacks.

Hermanus Berserik

So he made more than 300 covers and illustrations for books for publishers including Voorhoeve (The Hague), Bert Bakker/Daamen (Ooievaar pockets) and Querido (Salamander pockets, both comparable with the Penguin Books ).

In a Lonely Place

Penguin Books also published a paperback edition in the UK in 2010 as part of their Modern Classics imprint.

Mutant Chronicles

A trilogy of three novels set in this universe were published by Penguin Books to boost the franchise and widen the perspective of the role-players.

Psirens

Edited by Grant Naylor and published by Penguin Books, it was released just a few months before the episode was broadcast.

Shadow of Night

Shadow of Night was first published in hardcover on July 10, 2012 by Penguin Books, becoming a New York Times Best Seller upon its release.

The Gatekeepers

:An ambitious writer from Staten Island; attends Wesleyan University; later attends Oxford University; and creates a series of best-selling college guidebooks, Students' Guide to Colleges, from Penguin Books, as well as Unigo -- a free online college resource guide

We Tell Stories

We Tell Stories is an alternate reality game launched in March 2008 by Six to Start in conjunction with Penguin publishers.


Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel (as opposed to and the Small Amphibians and the Guardian serial).

Albatross Books

Allen Lane adopted the look-and-feel of Albatross editions closely, copying most of its innovations, for the first Penguin Books.

Amber Benson

In September 2007, Benson signed a three-book deal with Ginjer Buchanan of Penguin Books.

Anatomy of a Disappearance

Anatomy of a Disappearance is the second novel by the award-winning Libyan writer Hisham Matar, first published in 2011 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books.

Arindam Chaudhuri

In February 2011, a book excerpt on Arindam Chaudhuri published in the Caravan magazine and the chapter from the book (The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India) on which the excerpt was based, were removed following a preliminary injunction order by a court against Caravan, author Siddhartha Deb and the book publisher Penguin Books, in response to a lawsuit citing "grave harassment and injury".

Cathie Felstead

Felstead's commercial clients have included British Airways, Channel 4, Ballet Rambert, Fiat, Oxfam, Lynx (the anti fur trade organisation), Walker Books, Barclays Bank, the Glastonbury Festivals, Penguin Books, Radio Times, and The Body Shop.

Cathleen With

While she is best known for her short stories, her first novel Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison was published with Penguin Canada in 2009 and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Derek Birdsall

During his long career—among much other work—Birdsall designed Penguin book covers and Pirelli calendars; he art-directed several magazines (including Nova and Mobil Oil's Pegasus; and he designed books for the Yale Center for British Art, the Tate, the V&A and the British Council and redesigned the Book of Common Prayer in 2000.

Emma Vieceli

She is currently working on two graphic novel series; The Avalon Chronicles with Nunzio Defilippis and Christina Weir for Oni Press, and Vampire Academy with Richelle Mead and Leigh Dragoon for Penguin Books.

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

In 2009, Putnam/Philomel published Artist To Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art, with contributors including Mitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Carle, Tomie dePaola, Leo Lionni, Barry Moser, Robert Sabuda, Maurice Sendak and Rosemary Wells.

Francis MacManus

The panel of three judges for the 2012 competition is: Brendan Barrington, a Senior Editor at Penguin Ireland and editor of The Dublin Review; John MacKenna, author, and winner of the Irish Times, Hennessy and Cecil Day Lewis awards as well as a Jacob's Award for his radio documentaries on Leonard Cohen; and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, novelist and short-story writer.

Gordon Torr

A novelized account of his time at Greefswald, the hard labour camp created by convicted sex offender Aubrey Levin, will be published by Penguin South Africa in early 2014.

ICUE

ICUE has partnerships with many of the UK's largest publishing houses including Penguin, Harper Collins, Pan Macmillan, Random House, Egmont, Transworld, A&C Black and Kogan Page.

Jesse Birdsall

The son of Penguin Books designer Derek Birdsall, Birdsall attended Hampstead School in North London.

John Lehmann

Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane of Penguin Books, who secured paper for The Penguin New Writing a monthly book-magazine, this time in paperback.

Marina Lewycka

Her second novel Two Caravans was published in hardback in March 2007 by Fig Tree (Penguin Books) for the United Kingdom market, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing.

Mark Musa

Mr. Musa has also translated and edited The Portable Dante and, with Peter Bondanella, The Portable Machiavelli, both published with Penguin Books.

Patricia Duncker

Introduction to the new Penguin edition and new translation by Helen Constantine of Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin (2005)

Peter Whigham

Peter George Whigham (1925 – 6 August 1987) was an English poet and translator, widely known for his translation of the poems of Catullus published by Penguin Books in 1966.

Pevsner Architectural Guides

In 1986 Penguin Books published an anthology from Pevsner's volumes edited by Bridget Cherry and John Newman, "The Best Buildings of England", ISBN 0-670-81283-8.

Pukeko Pictures

Martin Baynton, co-owner and Executive Producer at Pukeko Pictures, is a writer and illustrator of children's books with over 30 titles published by major English and American houses including Walker Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Greenwillow.

Robert Baldick

Robert Baldick (1927–1972) was a British scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice, and a well-known translator.

Romek Marber

In 2013, The Minories, Colchester exhibited a retrospective of graphic work designed by Romek Marber for Penguin books, The Economist, New Society, Town and Queen magazines, Nicholson’s London Guides, BBC Television, Columbia Pictures, London Planetarium and others.

Seb Lester

Lester is notable for his 2009–2010 redesigns for Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton of four covers of J. D. Salinger books, including The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey.

The Whole Story and Other Stories

The narrative focus switches between the proprietor, a 1974 Penguin edition of the book, a fly landing on it, and the man, who it transpires is buying every copy of the book he can find for his sister, who is constructing a boat out of them financed by an Arts Council grant...

Tim Sinclair

Best known for the verse novel Nine Hours North (Penguin Books, 2006), he is also the author of the poetry collections Re:reading the dictionary (Cottage Industry Press, 2011) and Vapour Trails, and a collaborator (with Ben Winch) on the spoken word concept album Brothers of the Head.