Pain and Prejudice takes a look at Oswald Cobblepots tragic origins, as readers follow the Penguin from his days of being bullied as a child to becoming one of the most feared gangsters in all of ...

Mass-market: Penguin paperbacks were designed to be produced at scale, replicable and affordable for readers. Each paperback cost only sixpence – the same price as a pack of cigarettes in 1935. Rather ...

For Penguin readers, crime is synonymous with green. The colour has been a staple of the publisher’s Crime jackets for the best part of a century, and the new editions pay tribute to this design ...