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Is death metal the secret to writing a bestseller? with Elif Shafak

How do you adapt East of Eden for screen?

How can I help someone fall in love with reading? with Nadia Shireen and Jonathan Douglas

Which books help us reconnect with nature? with Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

What's wrong with reading to look smart? with Abir Mukherjee

Which debut novels should you be reading in 2026?

Which books emotionally wrecked you? With Dawn French

What are the best novels about infidelity? With Sophie Mackintosh

What is a must-read book to make me laugh? With Bryony Gordon

Why I wanted to adapt Wuthering Heights with Emerald Fennell

What secrets does Jane Austen's house hold?

What were the best books of 2025?

What makes a setting feel so vivid it becomes a character? With Paula Hawkins

What is the best translated fiction to read? With Karl Ove Knausgaard

Why are generations at war with each other? With Zadie Smith

Is never growing up the secret to great storytelling? With Philip Pullman

Is Jane Austen's legacy more than just romantic love? With Andrew Hunter Murray and Gill Hornby

Why do we still laugh when times are hard? With Ocean Vuong

Which books shocked and shaped our society? With Simon Prosser and Jack Edwards

Which books defined a generation? with Irvine Welsh and Derek Owusu

How did penguin turn the UK into a nation of readers? with Kate Mosse

What should you read this summer? With Anthony Horowitz

What can fiction teach us about queer history? with Charlie Porter

What are the best book club books? with Yrsa Daley-Ward

What are the must read debut novelists of the year? (2025)

What are the best romance books? With Emily Henry

Why are children’s books so much fun to read? with Greg James and Chris Smith

Ask Penguin Series 2 Trailer

Jodi Picoult on the theory behind Shakespeare’s plays

A day in the life of a Publicist with Alison Barrow

The human experience and AI with Jeanette Winterson

A day in the life of a Books Editor with Simon Prosser

How to tackle reading the big Classics with Henry Eliot

What are the best books of the year? (2024)

What are the best Winter reads? with Jeanette Winterson

How do we best preserve the history of World Wars? With Al James, Terry Deary and James Holland

How do you become a published author, anyway? with Jennie Godfrey

What are the best books to gift at Christmas? with William Hanson

Could Shakespeare have been a woman? with Jodi Picoult

Was the book better than the film? with Robert Harris

How do you plot the perfect murder mystery? with Kate Atkinson

Do ghost stories still have the power to scare us? with Daisy Johnson

How do we define a classic novel? With Henry Eliot and Gill Hornby

Who gets to write African History? with Zainab Badawi

What are some of the best prize-winning books to read? With Sara Collins

Ask Penguin Trailer

The Best Of the Penguin Podcast 2023

Sebastian Faulks with Nihal Arthanayake

C Pam Zhang with Nihal Arthanayake

Peter Singer with Nihal Arthanayake

Yanis Varoufakis with Nihal Arthanayake

Alain de Botton with Isy Suttie

David Mitchell with Isy Suttie

Megan Nolan with Isy Suttie

Rob Rinder with Isy Suttie

Michael Magee with Nihal Arthanayake

Shaparak Khorsandi with Isy Suttie live from Latitude Festival

Brandon Taylor with Isy Suttie

Isabella Hammad with Isy Suttie

Tom Crewe with Nihal Arthanayake

Maxine Mei-Fung Chung with Isy Suttie

Sophie Mackintosh with Isy Suttie

Chris van Tulleken with Isy Suttie

Jyoti Patel with Nihal Arthanayake

Jonathan Kennedy with Isy Suttie

Diana Evans with Isy Suttie

Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie

Carlo Rovelli with Nihal Arthanayake

Julian Barnes with Nihal Arthanayake

Paul Harding with Nihal Arthanayake

Nadiya Hussein with Isy Suttie

Jane Fallon with with Nihal Arthanayake

The Year in Review 2022 (Part 2) with Nihal Arthanayake

The Year in Review 2022 (Part 1) with Nihal Arthanayake

Malorie Blackman with Nihal Arthanayake

Ian McEwan with Nihal Arthanayake

Live Event - Greta Thunberg in Conversation with Samira Ahmed

Special episode - Demystifying Publishing

Salley Vickers with Isy Suttie

Yomi Sode with Derek Owusu

Gabrielle Zevin with Athena Kugblenu

Robert Harris with Nihal Arthanayake

Lisa Jewell with Isy Suttie

Nadifa Mohamed with Derek Owusu

Darren McGarvey with Nihal Arthanayake

Jarvis Cocker with Isy Suttie

Sinead Moriarty with Isy Suttie

Damon Galgut with Nihal Arthanayake

Alison Hammond with Derek Owusu

Benjamin Zephaniah with Derek Owusu

Asma Khan with Isy Suttie

Hanif Abdurraqib with Nihal Arthanayake

Bonnie Garmus with Isy Suttie

Michael Rosen with Isy Suttie

Michio Kaku with Nihal Arthanayake

Pankaj Mishra with Nihal Arthanayake

Claire Fuller with Nihal Arthanayake

New Non-Fiction Writers to Look Out For in 2022 with Nihal Arthanayake

Debut Novelists to Look Out For in 2022 with Isy Suttie

The Year in Review (Part 2) with Nihal Arthanayake