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While rereading John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, I re-watched the 1981 TV series. While I was as underwhelmed by the series as I was in 1981, the book remains a classic, but did the illustrator actually read the book's description of the triffids?
#JohnWyndham #TheDayoftheTriffids #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #booksky #Britishsciencefiction
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While rereading John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, I re-watched the 1981 TV series. While I was as underwhelmed by the series as I was in 1981, the book remains a classic, but did the illustrator actually read the book's description of the triffids?
#JohnWyndham #TheDayoftheTriffids #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #booksky #Britishsciencefiction
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While rereading John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, I re-watched the 1981 TV series. While I was as underwhelmed by the series as I was in 1981, the book remains a classic, but did the illustrator actually read the book's description of the triffids?
#JohnWyndham #TheDayoftheTriffids #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #booksky #Britishsciencefiction
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After re-watching the 3 Chocky TV series, I re-read John Wyndham's book. He really was a phenomenal writer. The first series is faithful to the book. The second, expands the story very well. The third series is a letdown. It is generic children's sci-fi, very badly miscast and derailed by sidelining the main character who underpinned the whole story.
#JohnWyndham #Chocky #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #Britishsciencefiction
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After re-watching the 3 Chocky TV series, I re-read John Wyndham's book. He really was a phenomenal writer. The first series is faithful to the book. The second, expands the story very well. The third series is a letdown. It is generic children's sci-fi, very badly miscast and derailed by sidelining the main character who underpinned the whole story.
#JohnWyndham #Chocky #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #Britishsciencefiction
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After re-watching the 3 Chocky TV series, I re-read John Wyndham's book. He really was a phenomenal writer. The first series is faithful to the book. The second, expands the story very well. The third series is a letdown. It is generic children's sci-fi, very badly miscast and derailed by sidelining the main character who underpinned the whole story.
#JohnWyndham #Chocky #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #Britishsciencefiction
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Just laid hands on this beautiful hard cover book
*India’s Forests* : Revisiting Nature and History
A compilation of essays from some very cool researchers & writers with a foreword by an amazing historian Dr Shekhar Pathak, while the editors, Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan have a rich history of great writing as well.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.penguin.co.in/book/indias-forests
#books #IndiasNature #Forests #Essays #history #environment #Communities #Ecology #PenguinBooks #Culture
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Just laid hands on this beautiful hard cover book
*India’s Forests* : Revisiting Nature and History
A compilation of essays from some very cool researchers & writers with a foreword by an amazing historian Dr Shekhar Pathak, while the editors, Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan have a rich history of great writing as well.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.penguin.co.in/book/indias-forests
#books #IndiasNature #Forests #Essays #history #environment #Communities #Ecology #PenguinBooks #Culture
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Just laid hands on this beautiful hard cover book
*India’s Forests* : Revisiting Nature and History
A compilation of essays from some very cool researchers & writers with a foreword by an amazing historian Dr Shekhar Pathak, while the editors, Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan have a rich history of great writing as well.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.penguin.co.in/book/indias-forests
#books #IndiasNature #Forests #Essays #history #environment #Communities #Ecology #PenguinBooks #Culture
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Just laid hands on this beautiful hard cover book
*India’s Forests* : Revisiting Nature and History
A compilation of essays from some very cool researchers & writers with a foreword by an amazing historian Dr Shekhar Pathak, while the editors, Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan have a rich history of great writing as well.
Looking forward to reading this
https://www.penguin.co.in/book/indias-forests
#books #IndiasNature #Forests #Essays #history #environment #Communities #Ecology #PenguinBooks #Culture
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/106943/ Can African penguins be brought back from the brink? Better designed no-fishing zones could help #AfricanPenguins #FishingIndustry #FishingVessels #Namibia #penguin #PenguinPopulation #RobbenIsland #SchoolingFish #SouthAfrica #ThePenguins
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#1199 Thor Heyerdahl - Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st Penguin edition, 6th reprint.
#ThorHeyerdahl #PenguinBooks #EasterIsland #RapaNui #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay
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#1172 Denys Val Baker (ed) - Cornish Short Stories. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st edition.
#DenysValBaker #PenguinBooks #Cornwall #JackClemo #DaphneDuMaurier #WinstonGraham #CharlesCausley #ALRowse #BookOfTheDay
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/677394/ 30 fascinating photos of Great Britain in the Swinging Sixties #Britain #CapitalOfTheWorld #CoronationStreet #CoventryCathedral #England #FashionIcon #GettyImages #GreatBritain #HaroldWilson #Internazionale #JamesBond #JohnLennon #LiverpoolBeatlesMuseum #london #LondonTransportMuseum #ManchesterUnited #MaryQuant #NationalArchives #NorthernIreland #PenguinBooksLtd #Scotland #SirAllenLane #SirClifford #TheRollingStones #TottenhamHotspur #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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Will the team rebound? Penguins vs. Kraken preview – WPXI https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/317286/ #BackToBackGames #Hockey #kracken #NHL #penguins #PenguinsGameTime #PenguinsKracken #PenguinsOpponent #PenguinsStartingGoalie #pens #Pittsburgh #PittsburghPenguins #PittsburghPenguins #preview #WhenDoThePenguinsPlay
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At The Yard, Salisbury — A Morning with Penguins
HOW PENGUIN BOOKS GOT ITS NAME — AND STARTED A PUBLISHING REVOLUTION
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIt was a bright August morning when we wandered into The Yard, a tucked-away coffee shop in Salisbury that felt like a secret shared among friends. The scent of espresso mingled with freshly baked muffins, and the walls featured book covers — rows of orange, blue, and green Penguins, those timeless companions of readers everywhere.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsAs we sipped our coffee (and yes, the hot chocolate was extraordinary), I remembered a story that began nearly a century ago — one that changed how the world reads.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIn 1935, Allen Lane, managing editor at The Bodley Head, stood on a train platform in Exeter after visiting Agatha Christie. Searching for a good-quality paperback for his journey back to London, he found only cheap, flimsy magazines. That moment sparked an idea that would transform publishing: books should be both affordable and beautifully made — quality literature priced like a daily newspaper.
Lane envisioned a series of paperbacks that would bring fine writing to everyone, sold not just in bookshops but in railway stations and corner stores. A young secretary, Joan Coles, suggested the name ‘Penguin,’ friendly and memorable. Lane sent 21-year-old artist Edward Young to the London Zoo to sketch the bird that would become one of the most beloved emblems in publishing history.
What many readers don’t realize is that the earliest Penguins were colour-coded — a design both simple and brilliant. Each colour represented a different genre: orange for fiction, dark blue for biography, red for drama, green for crime, black for serious non-fiction, purple for essays, and grey for world affairs. Together they formed a mosaic of modern reading — bright, confident, and accessible. When we looked at the colourful covers on The Yard’s walls, we were really looking at the visual history of how reading became democratic.
The literary establishment was scandalized. Serious literature, sold beside the morning paper? But readers had the final word. Hemingway, Christie, and Maurois found new homes in satchels and coat pockets across Britain. Within a year, millions of Penguins were in circulation — proof that good books belong to everyone.
As I looked at those covers in The Yard, I realized that the Penguin revolution wasn’t just about paperbacks. It was about trust — the belief that ordinary people deserved access to extraordinary ideas.
At the Yard, Salisbury, A Morning with PenguinsIn a quiet corner of Salisbury, over coffee and conversation, I was reminded that revolutions don’t always begin with noise. Sometimes, they start with a small bird and a bold idea.
Until the next page,
Rebecca
#books #PenguinBooks #RebeccaSReadingRoom #Salisbury #TheBodleyHead
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📚💡💬 | #CurrentlyReading: „Dead and Alive (Essays)“ (Penguin Books, 2025) by the great Zadie Smith
#essays #bibliophilia #foodforthought #zadiesmith #penguinbooks #books #book #booklover #newbook
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📚💡💬 | #CurrentlyReading: „Dead and Alive (Essays)“ (Penguin Books, 2025) by the great Zadie Smith
#essays #bibliophilia #foodforthought #zadiesmith #penguinbooks #books #book #booklover #newbook
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📚💡💬 | #CurrentlyReading: „Dead and Alive (Essays)“ (Penguin Books, 2025) by the great Zadie Smith
#essays #bibliophilia #foodforthought #zadiesmith #penguinbooks #books #book #booklover #newbook
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📚💡💬 | #CurrentlyReading: „Dead and Alive (Essays)“ (Penguin Books, 2025) by the great Zadie Smith
#essays #bibliophilia #foodforthought #zadiesmith #penguinbooks #books #book #booklover #newbook
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📚💡💬 | #CurrentlyReading: „Dead and Alive (Essays)“ (Penguin Books, 2025) by the great Zadie Smith
#essays #bibliophilia #foodforthought #zadiesmith #penguinbooks #books #book #booklover #newbook
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My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author. #BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
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My 1969 Penguin edition of 'Conjure Wife', Fritz Leiber's highly original novel about the wives of academics at a university using #witchcraft to further their husbands' careers. First published in 1953. #31DaysOfHalloween #BookChatWeekly #penguinbooks #vintagepaperbacks #Penguin
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#923 Philip Ziegler - The Black Death. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984, 1st edition, reprint of reissue. #PhilipZiegler #PenguinBooks #Plague #Epidemics #Medieval #BookOfTheDay
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sometimes, you spend half the evening making a silly #meme, and when you look upon what you wrought, you realise the amount of people in the entire world for whom it is funny, besides yourself, might just be in the very low double digits.
#books #lovecraft #necronomicon #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #design #jantschichold
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sometimes, you spend half the evening making a silly #meme, and when you look upon what you wrought, you realise the amount of people in the entire world for whom it is funny, besides yourself, might just be in the very low double digits.
#books #lovecraft #necronomicon #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #design #jantschichold
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sometimes, you spend half the evening making a silly #meme, and when you look upon what you wrought, you realise the amount of people in the entire world for whom it is funny, besides yourself, might just be in the very low double digits.
#books #lovecraft #necronomicon #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #design #jantschichold
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sometimes, you spend half the evening making a silly #meme, and when you look upon what you wrought, you realise the amount of people in the entire world for whom it is funny, besides yourself, might just be in the very low double digits.
#books #lovecraft #necronomicon #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #design #jantschichold
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📚 Book World 📚
Harland Miller is an author and artist, born in Yorkshire, England in 1964 - probably best known for his humorous paintings of Penguin Book covers.
#harlanmiller #art #artist #artworld #penguinbooks #bookcovers #books #bookworld #ukartist #painter #author #writer #painting #painter #humor
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📚 Book World 📚
Harland Miller is an author and artist, born in Yorkshire, England in 1964 - probably best known for his humorous paintings of Penguin Book covers.
#harlanmiller #art #artist #artworld #penguinbooks #bookcovers #books #bookworld #ukartist #painter #author #writer #painting #painter #humor