allmyprettybooks-new

Since 2008, Penguin have published classic literature in a beautifully packaged format: the Clothbound Classics serie s. Each edition is bound in cloth, with covers individually designed by the talented Coralie Bickford-Smith . Several new titles have been published since I first created a complete list of this collection, including all three volumes of Proust's Rememberance of Things Past  and Jule's Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . So I decided to update the list to include these new titles, along with a free printable download with full details of each title to assist in completing your own collection. In order of publication, here is the complete list of Penguin Clothbound Classics to date (August 2017): Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Tess of the d'Urbervilles

The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp Reviewed by Amanda Kennedy on August 21st, 2017 Published by Orbit Jack Sparks died while writing this book. This is the account of his final days. A rebel in the writing world, Jack Sparks is controversial, unrelenting, and an atheist. Despite his infamous drug habit, everyone was shocked when he died while writing and researching his latest novel, Jack Sparks on the Supernatural, though believers will be forgiven for feeling it was deserved after he laughed during an exorcism in Italy and mocked the event on social media... Then there was that mysterious video on Youtube, those forty seconds of "found footage" he claimed to know nothing about. Many considered this to be the most convincing evidence of the supernatural yet, which is odd considering this was something Jack had hoped to debunk. The novel tells the story of the final forty days of Jack Sparks, beginning with the exorcism and ultimately ending with his (untimely? fate

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked.  But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem’s life takes some unexpected twists and turns. As he grows up amidst a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters, Saleem must learn the ominous consequences of his gift, for the course of his life is inseparably linked to that of his motherland, and his every act is mirrored and magnified in the events that shape the newborn nation of India. It is a great gift, and a terrible burden.  An ambitious dramatisation of Salman Rushdie's magical novel is currently available to listen on Radio 4. This seven part drama features a full cast of characters to bring the classic novel to life. Catch up now on BBC iPlayer .