Michael Joseph

Penguin Random House UK’s new consumer and digital development department has set out its structure, which will help it “come together as one company around the consumer” to achieve PRH’s aim of being “a cultural and entertainment powerhouse”.

In an email to staff Hannah Telfer, who was made group director, consumer and digital development in January,  set out the new structure of the team and announced the formation of the Penguin Random House consumer executive.

No, not those National Book Awards. E.L. James will square off with the likes of Bernard Cornwell, Victoria Hislop and Kate Mosse in the Popular Fiction category of the U.K.'s  National Book Awards on Dec. 4 in London.

 Penguin has released a visual of the front cover of Pippa Middleton’s party planning guide, Celebrate, with the author promising it will be "a useful and practical journey into British-themed occasions."

Michael Joseph will release the book in hardback on October 25th, at a price of £25.

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