Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Michael Joseph PenguinRandomHouse Crime Party 2025

 


The Shots Magazine team of Blogger Ayo Onatade accompanied by Editors Mike Stotter and Ali Karim were delighted to accept invitations to the 2025 Michael Joseph annual crime fiction party, hosted in The Crypt at St Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square,. London.  

We have been attending for many years now, previewing the forthcoming crime fiction publications that would be released by this important imprint of the PenguinRandomHouse group.


Previous reports remain archived, here for 2019, and video footage from 2018 Joel Richardson's welcoming speech - 


....and  2017 as well as a video collage from 2008 -



The Michael Joseph 2024 Crime Fiction Catalogue & Publishing Schedules can be downloaded as a .pdf HERE OR click the link below >

https://www.penguin.co.uk/about/publishing-houses/penguin-michael-joseph

2025 marks the 90th anniversary of the formation of Penguin Publishing.

Michael Joseph was a bestselling author before he turned publisher in 1935 – the same year Penguin paperbacks were launched. In 1985, exactly half a century after their mutual founding, Michael Joseph became the commercial imprint of Penguin Books.

So it was a delight to chat to Penguin’s Publishers Rowland White and Joel Richardson together with Deputy Publicity Director Gaby Young and her colleagues – who we thanked for throwing a wonderful party as ever – a far cry from the days of The Union Club in Soho, where Rowland would stand precariously on a rickety chair to welcome the guests to the Penguin Michael Joseph annual soiree.

We were delighted to learn that Steve Mosby’s alter ego is coming to film featuring Robert De Niro and directed by James Ashcroft –

What is The Whisper Man about?

Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by North: When his 8-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as “The Whisper Man.”



Read More HERE

We feature and array of photos for the event as we mingled with the Penguin authors and their Editorial and Publicity teams – and many colleagues from the London Literary scene.

To plan your own crime and thriller reading, download the Penguin schedule HERE

Shots Magazine would like to thank Rowland White, Joel Richardson and Gaby Young for inviting us to the 2025 Penguin MJ Crime Party.

 





The Michael Joseph 2024 Crime Fiction Catalogue & Publishing Schedules can be downloaded as a .pdf HERE



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