Penguin to release Charlotte Higgins's 'Ukrainian Lessons' on 20 August 2026

Penguin publishes Charlotte Higgins's 'Ukrainian Lessons' on 20 August 2026 (ISBN 9781787335974). Higgins, the Guardian's chief culture writer and a classicist, draws on three years of reporting trips to Ukraine to document how artists kept creating through the full-scale Russian invasion. The Guardian reviewed the book on 18 August 2026.