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London, 02 March 2009

PENGUIN GROUP ANNOUNCES RECORD 2008 PROFITS

Profits up 26% to a record £93 million, double digit margin achieved.

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London, 13 February 2009

PENGUIN SWOOPS ON MADOFF

Joel Rickett at Viking (an imprint of Penguin) has acquired the definitive account of Bernard Madoff, the alleged $50bn hedge fund fraudster.

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London, 02 February 2009

AMANDA PUNTER PROMOTED TO PUFFIN EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Amanda Punter has been promoted to Editorial Director for Fiction at Puffin. Amanda is the editor for some of Puffin’s biggest authors, including Charlie Higson and Cathy Cassidy. Amanda continues to report into Sarah Hughes, Fiction Publishing Director, who returns from maternity leave on 4 February.

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London, 03 November 2008

PENGUIN AND CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK CRAFT A THRILLING NEW ONLINE MYSTERY

Penguin and Crime & Investigation Network announced today the launch of Monkeys, Skulls and Crosses , an exciting new online crime game scripted by Penguin author Michael Morley.

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London, 07 October 2008

COLM TÓIBÍN MOVES TO PENGUIN WITH HIS NEXT NOVEL

Penguin announced today that Viking has acquired two new novels and a collection of short stories by Colm Tóibín from Peter Straus at Rogers Coleridge and White. Tóibín's new novel is entitled Brooklyn and will be published by Editorial Director Mary Mount in the UK and Ireland in May 2009 by Viking.

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London, 07 October 2008

PENGUIN ACQUIRES WORLD RIGHTS IN EPIC NEW TRILOGY

Penguin announced today that it has acquired, pre-emptively, from Anthony Goff at David Higham, world rights to an epic trilogy written by British author and screenwriter Paul Hoffman.

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London, 07 October 2008

EXCITING NEW ACQUISITIONS AS PENGUIN READIES FOR FRANKFURT

London, 07 October 2008... Penguin announced today a superb list of recent acquisitions in the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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London, 17 September 2008

NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR EOIN COLFER IS CHOSEN TO WRITE THE SIXTH HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

Penguin announced today that it is to publish the sixth novel in the ever-more increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the tragically early death of its creator, Douglas Adams, widow Jane Belson has sanctioned the project to be written by the international number-one bestselling children's writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. The new book is entitled "And Another Thing..." and will be published in hardback by Penguin in October 2009.

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