• Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks - Seashore Life and Pattern by T A Stevenson
  • Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks - French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David
  • Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks - Ariel by Andre Maurois
  • Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks - Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks

Penguin paperbacks were a publishing revolution: lightweight, affordable editions that brought high-quality fiction and non-fiction to all. Clare Morpurgo, daughter of the Penguin Books founder Allen Lane, discusses the five Penguins that she loved most as a young reader—and why it’s down to her that her father never published The Hobbit.