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

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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...

What ho! Dearest publishers, only a few days remain to submit entries for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Act swiftly to ensure your books are considered: entries close Friday 13 June www.wodehouseprize.com/howtoenter

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is widely regarded as a landmark in gay literature. Set in 1950s Paris, a young American finds himself caught between his repressed desires and social expectations when he becomes involved with a bartender named Giovanni... www.penguin.co.uk/books/433444...

This Pride month, and every month, we’re proud to publish some of literature’s best-loved and most acclaimed queer writers. Who are your favourite LGBTQIA+ authors? #pride #queerclassics #wewerealwayshere #queerlit #queerhistory

Elizabeth Bowen was born on this day in Dublin in 1899. The Collected Stories features 79 stories written over the course of four decades and, in his introduction to this edition, John Banville calls her ‘the supreme genius of her time’. buff.ly/i0gj6Xc

This week, we've published River Stories, edited by Henry Hughes. From The Wind in the Willows to Huckleberry Finn, Alice Munro's ‘The Found Boat’ and Zadie Smith's ‘The Lazy River,’ these are testament to the power of rivers in the human imagination. buff.ly/Nztc1zp

Explore nature from the comfort of your home, through the poems and stories of some of our greatest writers. These poetry and story collections transport the reader to far-off seas, along rushing torrents and through peaceful woodland, into blooming gardens filled with the hum of bees...

Planning a Father’s Day present? Treat them to a beautiful Everyman’s Library book – from Hip Hops to daring detectives and stories about exploring the natural world, we’ve got something for every dad...

Looking back to our evening last Tuesday, celebrating the publication of African Stories at The Africa Centre. We were thrilled to hear Sir Ben in conversation with legendary publisher Margaret Busby. Thank you to The Africa Centre for hosting this wonderful event!

Happy publication centenary to Virginia Woolf's luminous Mrs Dalloway. We're deeply proud to publish Contemporary Classics editions of Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Orlando, introduced by Jeanette Winterson, and A Room of One's Own, introduced by Merve Emre.

'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William Wordsworth We’re wishing our followers a happy St George’s Day, courtesy of a host of English Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, Shelley and more. #pocketpoets #everymanslibrary #romanticpoets #stgeorgesday

For Earth Day 2025, we’re celebrating our rivers. In River Stories (5 June), tales by Harriet Beecher Stowe, E.M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, Cormac McCarthy, Elif Shafak and more, are testament to the enduring power of rivers in the human imagination. uk.bookshop.org/a/1353/97818... #earthday