Description: Welcome to a very special Penguin podcast. Starting today we're bringing you a complete Christmas story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, podcast in five installments.
This classic tale, wonderfully read by Geoffrey Palmer, will only be available until the new year, so subscribe today to make sure you don't miss an episode.
[Download MP3] This month's podcast has a ?New Year, New You? theme, so we asked a selection of our authors to provide some inspiration for 2012. First, so we can all remember why we made those brutal new years resolutions,...
In this special podcast, recorded with producer and engineer Roger Moutenot, Hollis Hampton-Jones reads from the opening of her novel, Comes the Night.Drawing on her personal experiences as a model in Paris, she produces an eye-opening insight into the fashion world as well as dealing boldly and compassionately with a range of taboo and controversial subjects. A stark, unflinching novel with a dark heart, Comes the Night chronicles 19 year old Meade?s fevered and tormented journey through the frothy, glossy world of fashion and the shadowy recesses of love.
Hello and Merry Christmas from everyone here at Penguin! We?ve got a very Christmassy themed episode with a big focus on food , so if you?re not hungry now you certainly will be by the end. There's a talk from Pen Vogler, publicist here at Penguin and co-Editor of the Great Food series. She?s going to be telling us all about the history of Christmas food and how things like turkeys and mince pies became associated with Christmas dinner. After that there's a brillantly funny extract from the audiobook edition of India Knight?s festive novel Comfort and Joy. If you've ever been to Oxford Street for some last minute christmas shopping you'll understand her pain. And lastly we have Juliet Annan, the Publishing Director of Fig Tree, reading a lovely recipe for blinis from Felicity Cloake?s Penguin Short, Perfect Christmas Day.
In this month?s podcast we?re celebrating the release of the Penguin Shorts, our new straight-to-digital series featuring some of our best writers.
The podcast features an interview with Venetia Butterfield, Publishing Director at Viking, in which she explains the thinking behind the Penguin Shorts. There?s also an extract from the audiobook edition of Colm Tóibín?s contribution, A Guest at the Feast, a captivating memoir of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. And finally we have an interview with Colm himself, in which he discusses a writer's approach to the short form and how it works for memoir.
Hear hilarious TV personality Rob Brydon read an extract from his autobiography, 'Small Man in a Book' - a portrait of how a young man from Wales very, very slowly became an overnight success in much-loved performances in shows such as The Trip, Gavin and Stacey, Human Remains and Marion and Geoff.
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Description: Welcome to a very special Penguin podcast. Starting today we're bringing you a complete Christmas story, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, podcast in five installments.
