The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the only literary accolade to present its winner with their very own pig. Here's this year’s winner, Rosanna Pike, with her new companion, aptly named after her winning novel: A Little Trickerie . #BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger Photo: Laurie Fletcher

The Vintage Bollinger Prize, celebrating 25 years of the funniest fiction, is received by Marina Lewycka’s partner Donald and her daughter Sonia. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2005. #VintageBollingerPrize #ChampagneBollinger

And here’s our winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025, Rosanna Pike, for her debut novel A Little Trickerie. Congratulations again, Rosanna, from all the judges and everyone at Everyman’s Library and Champagne Bollinger. #BEWP2025 #funnyfiction #ChampagneBollinger

The winner of the Vintage Bollinger Prize, celebrating 25 years of the funniest comic fiction, is A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. We’re incredibly lucky that Marina's enduring legacy is one of laugh-out-loud literature. #VintageBollingerPrize #BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger

The winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025 is A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike! Judge James Naughtie said, “Silky and effervescent, it bubbles with wit and style”. Huge congratulations to Rosanna and the team at Fig Tree #BEWP2025 #funnyfiction #ChampagneBollinger

Did you spot this interview in @FiveBooks.com with our Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize judge Stephanie Merritt? It’s one week until we announce our winner so it’s the perfect time to try a book from our shortlist! fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #bewprize2025 #funnyfiction #bollingerchampagne

As you all know, the Vintage Bollinger Prize will be awarded on 1 December alongside the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. This magnificent 'winner of winners' award will be chosen from our side-splitting past recipients.

This Halloween, we celebrate Mary Shelley, who wrote what is widely considered to be the first work of science fiction, aged only 19: Frankenstein. If you can’t wait for Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation to drop on Netflix, dive now into this groundbreaking novel... buff.ly/8IEtEp0

A classic, to reread and consider in the light of the grim mess the West is in…..

Poems About Trees @everymanslibrary.bsky.social ‬⁩ H.D., Denise Levertov #poetry #trees

Cheers to Last Acts being shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 🥂 ‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes ‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders

What ho! We are delighted to share this year's shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Which will you pick up first? Chair of the judges Peter Florence said: “Whichever novel wins will be a comic banger Wodehouse might enjoy.” Our winner will be announced on 1st Dec 🍾

Few authors reach the brilliance of Toni Morrison. Beloved, a spellbinding portrait of a woman haunted by the past, may be her best loved novel of all, and our Everyman's Library edition is presented with an introduction from A. S. Byatt. #BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/373082...

The Intuitionist is Colson Whitehead’s debut novel. Set in a darkly comic otherworld, heroine Lila Mae, the very first Black female elevator inspector, must clear her name and discover the secret formula of the Perfect Elevator at the same time. #BHM www.penguin.co.uk/books/457478...

Nella Larsen was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In her brilliant literary career, Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belong #BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/456310...

Award-winning writer Ben Okri curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present. Read stories by Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more... www.penguin.co.uk/books/461896... #BHM #BlackClassics

Not long left to get 25% off your waterstones.com pre-order of our 2026 titles Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, our Langston Hughes collection and Irish Stories. Just add the code OCTOBER25 when you check out online buff.ly/ItAuSlG buff.ly/guqyjxP buff.ly/N1g5JNw

From today until 17 October, get 25% off at waterstones.com with code OCTOBER25 when you pre-order Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks & The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes and Irish Stories buff.ly/ItAuSlG buff.ly/guqyjxP buff.ly/N1g5JNw

Today, we publish Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Cather’s childhood in Nebraska left her with a lasting appreciation of America’s frontiers and, in Death Comes for the Archbishop, she transports us to New Mexico alongside our protagonist, Latour www.penguin.co.uk/books/372908...

This week, we publish Party Stories, a festive collection of celebrations and soirees in literature. From Natasha’s first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to Hoover consorting with Capote in DeLillo’s ‘The Black and White Ball’. www.penguin.co.uk/books/469040...

Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802, the son of a formerly enslaved man from Haiti and an innkeeper’s daughter. While employed by the future French king, he wrote his best-known works, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. www.penguin.co.uk/books/405885... #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating some of the best loved and most acclaimed Black writers. Where better to start than with Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/408974...

What ho! We're celebrating 25 years of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with a special vintage edition. Please welcome Claudia Winkleman, Patrick Grant, Sindhu Vee, Tatty Macleod and, our Chair of Judges, Peter Florence. Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec! #BEWPrize25

In Heart of Darkness, Conrad explores the corrupting influence of power and racism in a horrifying story of colonial exploitation. Marlowe's encounter with Kurtz, an idealist crazed by power, prompts him to reflect on the eponymous darkness at the heart of all men www.penguin.co.uk/books/372993...

Today, we publish a collected edition of Joyce Cary’s Sara Monday trilogy: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth. These unforgettable narrative voices offer a sweeping vision of the early 1900s that is lyrical, profane, tragic, and comic all at once www.penguin.co.uk/books/469581...

On Thursday, we publish Fruits of the Earth. This cornucopia of harvest poetry includes many beloved old chestnuts, including Robert Frost’s ‘After Apple-Picking’, Emily Dickinson’s ‘Forbidden Fruit a flavor has’, and William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’. www.penguin.co.uk/books/471850...

In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, lured South by tales of buried treasure, Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead embarks on a personal odyssey. Raised by a status-obsessed father and dealing with a friend bent on racial revenge, now it's Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path. www.penguin.co.uk/books/373035...

Sons and Lovers, once dismissed as little more than pornography, is now regarded as DH Lawrence’s autofiction masterpiece. Set in his native Nottinghamshire, it is a compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations. www.penguin.co.uk/books/372841...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the first to be written, when Jane was just twenty-one. Revised for publication 13 years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the charming heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. www.penguin.co.uk/books/372820...

Today we publish Ada by Vladimir Nabokov. This story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it is also a fairy tale, an epic, a treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue. www.penguin.co.uk/books/470836...

We’re heading back to school and university this month, with a collections of classics that many of us first encountered as student readers. Which will you revisit?
 📚 Pride and Prejudice 📚 Heart of Darkness 📚 Great Expectations 📚 Sons and Lovers 📚 Song of Solomon

Last week, we published this beautiful new edition of two classic Philip Pullman stories, I Was A Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers, and The Scarecrow and his Servant. With tactile clothbound hard covers, these illustrations are colourised for the first time. 
www.penguin.co.uk/books/468068...

Joyce Cary, Herself Surprised / To Be a Pilgrim / The Horse's Mouth ( @everymanslibrary.bsky.social, @aaknopf.bsky.social, 2025): www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787897...

#BookSky I am filling a pothole in my road of poetry knowledge. It's a far cry from Lord Tennyson. I suspect some of these people dallied with proscribed substances. @everymanslibrary.bsky.social

Blake - @everymanslibrary.bsky.social #poetry #williamblake

An outstanding introduction to the master’s body of work. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/i... @everymanslibrary.bsky.social @karlstraub.bsky.social #Booksky

Our 7 Most Favorable Reviews in June. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @wwnorton.com @pantheonbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @everymanslibrary.bsky.social @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social #Booksky

Borderlines: Poems of Migration @everymanslibrary.bsky.social Bao Phi, @maidervang.bsky.social #poetry

Legitimately the first broadcast channel on Insta I’ve been excited about being invited to join is @everymanslibrary.bsky.social’s.

My first Huxley! Thanks @everymanslibrary.bsky.social

Nancy Mitford’s novels reflect questionable 20th-century social mores. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/tim... @everymanslibrary.bsky.social #booksky #nancymitford #mitford

Rimbaud @everymanslibrary.bsky.social #poetry #rimbaud

Poems of Paris @everymanslibrary.bsky.social ‬⁩ #poetry

Oscar Wilde's reputation as a modern and original talent was established by his fiction, then confirmed by the phenomenal success of his stage comedies, all huge hits in London's West End. buff.ly/g3tgqqH #pride #pridemonth #queerlit #queerclassics #modernclassics #wewerealwayshere

Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has entertained us for more than half a century. Now, editor Peter Gethers has selected lyrics from shows including Gypsy, Company, Follies, and Into the Woods to create pocket-sized treasury of the best of Sondheim. buff.ly/oK51yxF

Long before Todd Haynes’ adaptation of Carol, which Patricia Highsmith published under a pseudonym, her extraordinary anti-hero Tom Ripley had become a queer icon. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Ripley stops at nothing to achieve the opulent life he was denied as a child. buff.ly/nRgB8vG

On World Refugee Day, we reach for Border Lines, a poetry collection edited by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters. These poems from around the world give voice to the trials, hopes, rewards and losses of migration and challenge us to reexamine society from a new perspective. buff.ly/IxpYp8T

Love Speaks Its Name is a glorious celebration of gay and lesbian love poetry. From Michelangelo’s ‘‘Love Misinterpreted’’ to Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘‘Looking at Each Other,’’ these poems take on both desire and love in all its tender or taunting variety. www.penguin.co.uk/books/371433... #pride

Happy Fathers Day, dads! Wishing you a very hip hop happy day of reading and relaxation

Orlando, Virginia Woolf's most unusual, joyous novel, was inspired by her affair with the dashing Vita Sackville West. It explores Woolf’s lived and observed experiences of gender fluidity and sexual liberation with a playful openness that both moves and delights. www.penguin.co.uk/books/457490...