Categorie: Penguin Random House UK
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Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell Publisher: Penguin Random House UK Publishing year: 2008 (originally 1945) Pages: 95 Coverdesign: Shepard Faircy ISBN: 978-0141036137 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57033/animal-farm-by-orwell-george/9780241453865 Review: All animals are equal but… When your bff’s son has to read a classic, in English, for a school assignment and it’s a book you absolutely love and read it when you were…
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Publisher: Penguin Random House – Vintage Classics Publishing year: 2025 (first edition: 1818) Pages: 218 Cover: Icinori / Jemma Lewis Marbling & Design ISBN: 978-1529954302 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/372881/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9781529954302 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311812/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-series-editor-guillermo-del-toro-introduction-by-elizabeth-kostova-editorial-apparatus-by-charles-e-robinson/ Review: Who is the real Monster? After all these years I finally, finally read Frankenstein… and I wonder now why I waited this long…
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The Haunting of Hill House
Author: Shirley Jackson Publusher: Penguin Books – Penguin Horror Publishing year: 2013 (Jackson’s original book in 1959) Pages: 288 Coverdesign: Paul Buckley Forewords by Guillermo del Toro and Laura Miller ISBN: 978-0143122357 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311814/the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-shirley-jackson-series-editor-guillermo-del-toro/ Review: Welcome to Hill House My review will be in English because I read it in English although it was chosen by…
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Robert Langdon 6. The Secret of Secrets
Author: Dan Brown Publisher: Doubleday Books / Penguin Random House Publishing year: 2025 Pages: 677 Cover design: Will Staehle / Unusual Co. ISBN: 978-0385546898 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670325/the-secret-of-secrets-by-dan-brown/ Review: (Dutch review below) Consciousness Robert Langdon is in Prague with his newfound love, Katherine Solomon. Katherine was invited to this mythical city to have a lecture on noetic science,…
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Orbital
Author: Samantha Harvey Publisher: Vintage Publishing / Penguin Random House UK Publishing year: 2024 (first print in 2023) Pages: 137 Cover art: Aino-Maija Metsola ISBN: 978-1529922936 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454068/orbital-by-harvey-samantha/9781529922936 Review: ‘Orbital’ is the 2024 Booker Prize Winner! This books lasts 24 hours on Earth or 16 orbits in space. 16 earthly sunsets and 16 sunrises. 16 orbits…
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Strange Sally Diamond
Author: Liz Nugent Publisher: Penguin Books Publishing year: 2023 Number of pages: 366 ISBN: 978-0241993576 Review: Thomas Diamond had said to Sally: “Put me out with the bins. When I die, put me out with the bins. I’ll be dead, so I won’t know the difference.” So that’s what Sally Diamond did. She put him…
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On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous
Author: Ocean Vuong Publisher: Jonathan Cape London / Penguin Random House UK Publishing year: 2019 Number of pages: 246 Coverdesign: Suzanne Dean ISBN: 978-1787331501 Review: Oh boy, I was so excited to reread this book! I had read it the first time in 2020, just before all the sh*t with covid hit the fan. I…
