Shutterstock / PV productions©A love of reading won’t just keep you entertained this Christmas — it could also help a good cause near you.
Publisher Penguin Random House UK has come together with online retailer Bookshop.org and Neighbourly, one of the UK’s first B Corporations, to support grassroots good causes across the country, including food banks, homeless shelters, and community centres.
Under this new initiative, ever time a member of the public buys one of a specially curated list of Penguin books via Bookshop.org, a copy will be automatically donated to an isolated or vulnerable person.
The campaign will run between Monday 16 November and Monday 21 December 2020.
Fiction
- “Ghosts” by Dolly Alderton
- “The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood
- “Sentinel” by Lee Child and Andrew Child
- “Burnt Sugar” by Avni Doshi
- “Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernardine Evaristo
- “Troy” by Stephen Fry
- “V2” by Robert Harris
- “Invisible Girl” by Lisa Jewell
- “Us Three” by Ruth Jones
- “The Thursday Murder Club” by Richard Osman
- “That Reminds Me” by Derek Owusu
- “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
Non-fiction
- “A Life On Our Planet” by David Attenborough
- “Poor” by Caleb Femi
- “The Roasting Tin Around The World” by Rukmini Iyer
- “Be Antiracist: A Journal” by Ibram X Kendi
- “The Bookseller’s Tale” by Martin Latham
- “Cook, Eat, Repeat” by Nigella Lawson
- “Vesper Flights” by Helen Macdonald
- “The Lost Spells” by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
- “The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse” by Charlie Mackesy
- “Agent Sonya” by Ben Macintyre
- “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama
- “Flavour” by Yotam Ottolenghi
- “Just Us” by Claudia Rankine
- “English Pastoral” by James Rebanks
- “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake
- “The Wild Silence” by Raynor Winn
Children’s:
- “Kay’s Anatomy” by Adam Kay
- “The Puffin Keeper” by Michael Morpurgo
- “Never Show a T-Rex a Book!” by Rashmi Sirdeshpande
- “Serpentine” by Philip Pullman
Click here to order your book today, and support a good cause this Christmas.
For more on charities supported by “The People’s Friend”, visit our Helping Others pages.
Iain McDonald I am the Digital Content Editor at the “Friend”, making me responsible for managing the flow of interesting and entertaining content on the magazine’s website and social media channels.
