Screaming Penguin

Penguin are currently celebrating their seventieth birthday by publishing a special series of seventy short paperbacks priced at a measly 1.50 each. The spectrum of authors is astonishing, ranging from contemporary novelists such as Zadie Smith and Hunter S. Thompson, through non-fiction like Eric Schlosser and Simon Schama and classic authors including Roald Dahl, George Orwell and PG Wodehouse, to extracts from key publications in Penguin's history, such as Homer's Odyssey and the trial over Lady Chatterley's Lover. To top it, each book boasts a bespoke cover – the box set was extremely tempting. In the end though I rather randomly bought four of the series: Nick Hornby, Will Self, Franz Kafka and Truman Capote.