For a more seductive coffee break, watch The Carte Noire Readers read your favourite literary love scenes. Begin by choosing a Carte Noire Reader. There’s Joseph Fiennes from Shakespeare in Love, Dominic West from The Wire, Greg Wise from Sense & Sensibility and Dan Stevens from In the Line of Beauty. Then, choose a love scene from a mix of classic, modern and emerging Penguin novels. Relax back with a rich mug of Carte Noire, and when you’re sitting comfortably, then he’ll begin.

New readings are released weekly, so make some time every week to catch up on them.


» Up close with Joseph Fiennes
» Up close with Greg Wise
» Up close with Dominic West
» Up close with Dan Stevens


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