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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 .
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Photo: Laurie Fletcher
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Photo: Laurie Fletcher
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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
#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.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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.
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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.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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.
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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.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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
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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
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December 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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
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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!
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
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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.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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...
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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 🍾
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 🍾
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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 🍾
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...
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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...
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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
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#BHM #BlackClassics www.penguin.co.uk/books/456310...
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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...
#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...
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Read stories by Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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
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
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October 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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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
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October 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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
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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...
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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...
October 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
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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.
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#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics
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October 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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...
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackClassics
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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!
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Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec!
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September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
Vintage Bollinger Prize announced 1st Dec!
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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...
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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...
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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...
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...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/373035...
September 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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...
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...
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September 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/372841...