Colette in the Belle Epoque

Colette was a society beauty in the 1890s and wrote the Claudine series of novels about a young girl’s growth…

Jim Stoddart’s ‘Swiss’ Mini Moderns

The series of mini Modern Classics was published in 2011 as a celebration of 50 years of the Modern Classics…

Paul Hogarth’s illustrations for Graham Greene covers In 1962, Paul Hogarth was an established artist with a distinctive watercolour style.…

Swiss design ideas create order The subjects of these 1960s Pelicans are serious social issues so it’s natural that the…

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Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, hated illustrated book covers and fought against them in his company. He feared that…

“Penguin brings you the most seductive, inspiring and surprising writing on love in all its infinite variety”. So runs the…

British author Olivia Manning published the three novels in 1956-64 that comprise the Balkan trilogy. They cover the wartime experiences…