Riverhead Author Kamila Shamsie Wins the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Riverhead author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel, HOME FIRE, it was announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, June 6. This annual award, now in its 23rd year, celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world. “In the end we chose the

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Jacqueline Woodson Named 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate

Penguin Random House author Jacqueline Woodson was named the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate, the world’s largest award for children’s and young adult literature. The prize amounts to 5 million Swedish krona (approximately $613,000).  Woodson is the author of more than thirty books, including novels, poetry and picture books. One of her most lauded titles is

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Coming soon: ORIGIN by Dan Brown

We are thrilled to announce that Doubleday will publish ORIGIN by Dan Brown on October 3, 2017! In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind’s two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them.

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Discover the Peculiar World of Ransom Riggs!

Published by Quirk Books in 2011, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children follows sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman as he journeys from a sleepy Florida suburb to a remote island off the coast of Wales. There he stumbles upon the ruins of Miss Peregrine’s orphanage and discovers the shocking fate of the children who lived there long

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New York Times Bestsellers for June 19 – Complete Penguin Random House List

Below are all the Penguin Random House and Distribution Client titles on the  New York Times Best Seller Highlights for June 19th, 2016. View and download the excel order form here. *Please note that this is now a complete and combined list of all Penguin Random House and client publisher titles on the New York

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The BFG On the Big Screen: Roald Dahl, Walt Disney & Steven Spielberg Unite

The talents of three of the world’s greatest storytellers – Roald Dahl, Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg – finally unite to bring Dahl’s beloved classic The BFG to life. Directed by Spielberg, Disney’s The BFG tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of

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