Allen lane penguin biography books

In 1934, on his way to London after visiting his friend Agatha Christie, the young publisher Allen Lane stopped at the station bookstall at Exeter St Davids and saw that the books on sale were of a poor quality and overpriced.

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Allen Lane is now the leading publisher in the UK of bestselling serious non-fiction, setting the agenda in subjects including history, science, politics.

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Sir Allen Lane CH was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in , bringing high-quality.

Jeremy Lewis's magisterial biography of Allen Lane and the publishing house he founded, Penguin Books, is already eighteen years old.

What was needed, he realised, were good books at a price everyone could afford. Within a year he had founded Penguin Books, creating a paperback revolution that would sweep the world.

Today at Penguin Random House, Sir Allen Lane’s founding principles remain as important as ever.

We connect the world with the stories, ideas and writing that matter, putting books into the hands of as many readers as possible.

Today, a commerative plaque for Sir Allen Lane is being unveiled  at Exeter St Davids station, in the very spot where he was inspired to create the sixpenny paperback.

To celebrate, we are exploring his life and legacy, as well as his contribution to British publishing and influence on Penguin Rand