What should you read this summer? With Anthony Horowitz
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Penguin Books UK
4.1 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What are the books that give you all the Summer feels? Can you recommend the perfect thrillers to take on holiday? And which books evoke the song Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey? We put your questions to our panel of Penguin experts and speak with Marble Hall Murders author Anthony Horowitz about his final book in the Magpie Murders series.
Explore the full list of books discussed on this episode and read the transcript by visiting: Season 2, Episode 6: Summer Reads
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Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; three James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day and With a Mind to Kill; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders; and the Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line To Kill, The Twist of a Knife and Close to Death.
He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and ris esponsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.
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| 0:00.0 | Since 1935, Penguin has published books that have defined the world we live in. We've asked the |
| 0:05.5 | experts from editors and storytellers to musicians, podcasters and influencers to help us gather |
| 0:11.9 | the books that have shocked us, comforted us, raised us and set our imaginations alight. |
| 0:19.0 | Explore the titles curated by the experts and discover the story behind |
| 0:23.2 | the books that have shaped us on the Penguin website now. You'll find the link in the show notes. |
| 0:29.1 | And don't forget that with each list comes the opportunity to vote for your favourite and help us |
| 0:34.0 | create our reader's choice list to be released to coincide with Penguin's birthday |
| 0:38.9 | on the 30th of July. Plus, there's a chance to win all eight titles from that list in our giveaway. |
| 0:50.8 | Hello, welcome back to Ask Penguin, the podcast series from Penguin Books. I'm |
| 0:56.5 | Rihanna Dillon and I'm recording this from the Penguin offices in London, which is genuinely |
| 1:01.2 | one of my favourite places in the world. Every time I come here, there's a new part of beautiful |
| 1:06.3 | looking books to peruse and the office is always filled with people who want to talk to me about |
| 1:11.3 | these books from the authors themselves to the people who work here who live and breathe |
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| 1:45.5 | The year is finally turning and as I'm recording this we're heading full pelt towards |
| 1:52.0 | British summer. And whether we're looking forward to balmy weekends spent outdoors or the more |
| 1:57.1 | traditional rain-drenched days which make the perfect excuse for getting through |
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