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Brooklyn won the 2009 Costa Novel Award. The judges said it was "poised, quiet and incrementally shattering - we all loved this book and can't praise it highly enough."

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Author Book Choices

Our Featured Author, Colm Toibin, tells us about his favourite books.

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Jonathan Safran Foer, acclaimed author of the Everything is illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, will be in the UK in March to launch his riveting exposé Eating Animals.

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The Readers' Forum

March 2010
The Unnamed, the latest book by Joshua Ferris.

Joshua Ferris's new book The Unnamed, caused quite a stir. We had some dazzling comments on the Penguin Forum from readers who got their hands on an early proof copy.

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  • Readers' Group Book Ideas
We Are All Made of Glue Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Alone in Berlin The Monday Night Cooking School Strangers The Horse Boy Julie & Julia Legend of a Suicide An Education The Winter House The Wake The Idea of Love Mr Toppit The Road from Damascus A Fraction of the Whole The Lost Book of Salem The Boy With The Topknot Kieron Smith, boy The Believers A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Company of Liars God's Own Country Monster Love Submarine The Diary of a Young Girl The Rain Before it Falls Life Class Counting the Stars What is the What The Painter of Shanghai Salt Brideshead Revisited

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This month, the Willenhall Reading Group review Brooklyn by Colm Toibin.

The Racketeers from Bolton

Penguin was the first publisher to have its own website dedicated to providing a service for Reading Groups. Here we give you our top tips on setting up your own group.

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Juliet, Naked

Juliet, Naked
by Nick Hornby
'Vintage Hornby'
Sunday Times

The Help

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
'Highly recommended'
Daily Mail

 

AuthorsLive

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PenguinAuthorsLive.
October saw our first ever AuthorsLive chat with Nick Hornby talking about his latest book, Juliet, Naked and answering questions put to him, live, by fans.

Javascotia

To enter, simply email your name and address here, heading your email offer, with the title of the book and the first 10 readers will receive a copy.

To find out more about this month's book, and to enter the competition click here.

Editors' Choice

by Juliet Annan,
Fig Tree Publisher

This month the Fig Tree publisher explains why everyone loves Nancy Mitford.

Blonde Roots

Welcome to our new section, Book Group Notes. These are reading guides on the books we publish to help kick-start ideas and discussions for our readers. This month, we have two new reading guides.

 

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