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Little more than 10 years after Allen Lane published the first Penguins in the UK, the Australian company was established in a tin shed in South Melbourne, Victoria in 1946. For many years it was simply a distribution branch of Penguin UK, moving to Mitcham in 1953, onto Ringwood in 1963, and then to Camberwell, Victoria in 2002, and finally to its present location at 707 Collins Street in Melbourne.

The first Australian Penguin titles--To the Islands by Randolph Stow, Kangaroo Tales, edited by Rosemary Wighton and Three Australian Plays edited by Alan Seymour--were published in 1963. The late 50s and early 60s saw publication of writers such as Martin Boyd, Randolph Stow and Joan Lindsay, whose Picnic at Hanging Rock was eventually made into a successful film and remains one of Penguin Australia's bestselling titles, while Donald Horne's The Lucky Country brought a new phrase into the language. From a tiny tin shed in 1946, Penguin Australia has grown into an established and influential publishing company.

Penguin is home to some of Australia's bestselling and award-winning writers and illustrators: Stephanie Alexander, Pamela Allen, Felice Arena, Graeme Base, Geoffrey Blainey, Maggie Beer, Michelle Bridges, Peter Carey, Isobelle Carmody, Kaz Cooke, Bryce Courtenay, Robert Drewe, Mem Fox, Morris Gleitzman, Sonya Hartnett, Chloe Hooper, Paul Kelly, Kylie Kwong, Nam Le, Alison Lester, Michael Leunig, Melina Marchetta, Monica McInerney, Fiona McIntosh, Fiona Palmer and Tim Winton are household names.

On 1st July 2013 Penguin and Random House officially united to create Penguin Random House, the world's first truly global trade book publisher.

Works in the WWEnd Database

2023 ARCHIVES OF DESPAIR Caleb Finn	2023 THE SPIDER AND HER DEMONS Sydney Khoo	2017 YEAR OF THE ORPHAN Daniel Findlay	2015 CLADE James Bradley	2013 TEMPT THE STARS Karen Chance	2011 HUNT THE MOON Karen Chance
2008 THE SINGING Alison Croggon	2007 BLOOD OF DREAMS Susan Parisi	2006 THE SILVER ROAD Grace Dugan	2006 THE CROW Alison Croggon	2005 DOGBOY Victor Kelleher	2004 THE RIDDLE Alison Croggon
2003 DARKSONG Isobelle Carmody	2003 BORN OF THE SEA Victor Kelleher	2002 THE GIFT Alison Croggon	2001 COSMONAUT Peter McAllister	1999 SPARE PARTS Sally Rogers-Davidson	1999 INTO THE DARK Victor Kelleher
1999 THE IVORY TRAIL Victor Kelleher	1998 DARKFALL Isobelle Carmody	1996 DREAM WEAVERS Paul Collins	1989 THE RED KING Victor Kelleher	1987 THE MAKERS Victor Kelleher	1986 TARONGA Victor Kelleher
1984 KELLY COUNTRY A. Bertram Chandler	1981 DISPLACED PERSON Lee Harding	1981 ROOMS OF PARADISE Lee Harding

Authors Published

• Victor Kelleher  • Alison Croggon  • Isobelle Carmody  • Karen Chance  • Lee Harding  • Caleb Finn  • Sydney Khoo  • Arthur Chandler  • Daniel Findlay  • Paul Collins  • Grace Dugan  • Sally Rogers-Davidson  • James Bradley  • Peter McAllister  • Susan Parisi