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Ask Penguin

Penguin Books UK

What should I read next? Ask Penguin is the podcast where your quirkiest, trickiest, and most urgent book questions get answered. Hosted by Rhianna Dhillon, we bring bestselling authors and Penguin insiders to explore some of your favourite books and discover new ones that you are yet to read.

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Episodios

269 episodios

  1. Is getting older a laughing matter? With Jo Brand 57:06
  2. Is death metal the secret to writing a bestseller? With Elif Shafak 52:20
  3. How do you adapt John Steinbeck's East of Eden for the screen? 19:50
  4. How can I help someone fall in love with reading? With Nadia Shireen and Jonathan Douglas 46:51
  5. Which books help us reconnect with nature? With Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris 57:22
  6. What's wrong with reading to look smart? With Abir Mukherjee 58:36
  7. Which debut novels should you be reading in 2026? 51:56
  8. Which books emotionally wrecked you? With Dawn French 58:37
  9. What are the best novels about infidelity? With Sophie Mackintosh 41:22
  10. What is a must-read book to make me laugh? With Bryony Gordon 47:15
  11. Why I wanted to adapt Wuthering Heights With Emerald Fennell 1:07:54
  12. What secrets does Jane Austen's house hold? 26:15
  13. What were the best books of 2025? 40:40
  14. What makes a setting feel so vivid it becomes a character? With Paula Hawkins 50:39
  15. What is the best translated fiction to read? With Karl Ove Knausgaard 51:30
  16. Why are generations at war with each other? With Zadie Smith 56:01
  17. Is never growing up the secret to great storytelling? With Philip Pullman 42:11
  18. Is Jane Austen's legacy more than just romantic love? With Andrew Hunter Murray and Gill Hornby 50:10
  19. Why do we still laugh when times are hard? With Ocean Vuong 53:40
  20. Which books shocked and shaped our society? With Jack Edwards and Simon Prosser 1:05:19
  21. Which books defined a generation? with Irvine Welsh and Derek Owusu 47:30
  22. How did penguin turn the UK into a nation of readers? with Kate Mosse 55:26
  23. What should you read this summer? With Anthony Horowitz 47:16
  24. What can fiction teach us about queer history? With Charlie Porter 42:35
  25. What are the best book club books? With Yrsa Daley-Ward 50:52
  26. What are the must read debut novelists of the year? (2025) 42:03
  27. What are the best romance books? With Emily Henry 38:57
  28. Why are children’s books so much fun to read? With Greg James and Chris Smith 36:11
  29. Ask Penguin Series 2 Trailer 0:59
  30. What is Jodi Picoult's theory about Shakespeare? (Bonus) 6:36
  31. What does a day in the life of a book publicist look like? (Bonus) 8:49
  32. The human experience and AI with Jeanette Winterson (Bonus) 8:16
  33. A day in the life of a Books Editor with Simon Prosser 8:26
  34. How to tackle reading the big Classics with Henry Eliot 7:30
  35. What are the best books of the year? (2024) 12:00
  36. Which books are perfect for winter? with Jeanette Winterson 35:16
  37. How do books bring history to life? With Al James, James Holland and Terry Deary 48:46
  38. How do you become a published author, anyway? with Jennie Godfrey 40:49
  39. What are the best books to gift at Christmas? with William Hanson 47:28
  40. Could Shakespeare have been a woman? with Jodi Picoult 42:35
  41. Is the film every better than the book? With Robert Harris 26:37
  42. How do you plot the perfect murder mystery? with Kate Atkinson 24:40
  43. Do ghost stories still have the power to scare us? with Daisy Johnson 30:22
  44. How do we define a classic novel? With Henry Eliot and Gill Hornby 43:48
  45. Who gets to write African History? with Zainab Badawi 29:29
  46. What are some of the best prize-winning books to read? With Sara Collins 37:27
  47. Ask Penguin Trailer 0:53
  48. The Best Of the Penguin Podcast 2023 36:09
  49. Sebastian Faulks with Nihal Arthanayake 42:34
  50. C Pam Zhang with Nihal Arthanayake 45:57