What better way to celebrate the up-coming All Hallow’s Eve than with a guide to some of our favourite witches in literature – from the conjuring of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters to the blue spit of Roald Dahl’s Grand High Witch of the World. “A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, […]
Robin Stevens, author of the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, explains why Queen of Crime Agatha Christie’s books are perfect reading for sleuths big and small.
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake is a heart-rending and profoundly moving story of love and loss in World War II. As part of the new Penguin By Hand series, the cover has been recreated in hand embroidery by Jenny Hart. Read more on her creative process, and the challenges of using embroidery for a book jacket design, in this exclusive interview.
Read an exclusive extract from After You, the much anticipated sequel to Jojo Moyes’ international bestseller, Me Before You.
Bridget Christie talks to ….Bridget Christie about her new book A Book for Her. (and for him, if he can read).
From Nora Webster to Eilis Lacey, the novelist Colm Tóibín has a knack for creating compelling female characters. Writing exclusively for Women on the Page, Penguin Editor Mary Mount tells us why.
Suzanne Dean, the designer behind the cover of Sara Taylor’s stunning new novel, The Shore, talks the Penguin Blog through the creative process of creating this particular book jacket.
Travel writing has a long literary heritage – but which eye-opening travelling tales were penned by women? Harriet Horobin-Worley, Digital Assistant Editor for Penguin, takes you on an adventure through the eyes of female authors…
Sophie Kinsella, best-selling author of the universally loved Shopaholic series, tells Women on the Page about her literary heroines.
Etta and Otto and Russell and James author Emma Hooper shares her top five brilliant, inspiring, memorable and daring characters (aka: a short list of the women in fiction she want(ed) to be).
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