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Penguin - News
Last updated 04.12.08
Pearson puts freeze on Penguin pay
Media group Pearson has frozen all 2009 pay rises for all of its employees, including the Penguin Group, and Pearson Education, who earn...
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Jamie Oliver launches magazine
TV chef Jamie Oliver, whose Ministry of Food (Penguin) cookbook is one of the...
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New William Trevor for Penguin
Marcella Edwards at PFD has secured a new deal for William Trevor in the UK and the US....
Penguin - In Depth
Last updated 21.11.08
A jobbing author
Alain de Botton The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Penguin, April, hb, £18.99, 9780241143537) With unemployment figures reaching an 11-year high and talk of a recession spreading throughout Europe, working life is...
Hachette steals the show
So it wasn't the Grinch that stole Christmas. It was Hachette Livre. Several of its companies had spectacular festive seasons, transforming a hitherto flat year for the UK's largest consumer publishing group. Yet Tim Hely Hutchinson,...
David Davidar: Fighting the fanatics with fire
Many publishers secretly believe they could make it as authors. But how many are prepared to wake up at 4 a.m. every day, to squeeze in a couple of hours of writing before the working day begins? That's the regime that Penguin Canada president...
Penguin - Blogs
Last updated 18.11.08
Ashley Wilks
A criminal journey
A few months ago I started on a criminal journey with one of our authors which I’m glad to say didn’t end in murder; on the contrary, it’s ended with the birth of my very first online...
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Benedicte Page
New Hitchhiker: Is Fowl fair?
Eoin Colfer is a clever choice, a natural match for Douglas Adams, even if Hitchhiker fans...
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JOHN MAKINSON
Warm waters
Why are publishers so poor at recruiting from outside the industry? They should be prepared to...
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