Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

I first fell in love with the art of paperback covers at school in the 1970s. I had always adored books and had been brought up in a house packed to the rafters with them – and, much to my ...

Penguin Modern Classics is to publish a “definitive annotated edition” of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, one of his Discworld novels. Publication into paperback will be just before Terry ...

The new Happy Reading campaign by Penguin Classics is nothing short of a love letter to the trusty old favourites that readers keep coming back to, time and time again. The books shown in the ads are ...