Fabulous Penguin Clothbound Classics

Any of these would make a fantastic present for a book-lover.

Featuring 3 of our past reads -

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Treasure Island

The Picture of Dorian Grey

& one of our future reads -

Gulliver's Travels

Plus - you can win a set of 6 Scott F Fitzgerald books - watch the video below to see how:

Great F. Scott from Penguin Books on Vimeo.

Good luck!

The Wave Pictures - Sweetheart

How great is this? A music video made entirely out of second hand books. The music's not bad either!

The Wave Pictures - Sweetheart from Ben Reed on Vimeo.

From The Wave Pictures

Derren Brown Investigates

The first episode, showing tonight, should be required viewing for anyone reading Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural.

In the opening episode of the series Brown investigates a spiritualist.

Here's a clip:



Tonight at 10pm on Channel 4

Update - if you missed it you can watch it on 4OD

Little Red Riding Hood re-imagined

Brilliant, surreal video.

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

Video trailer for the Freakonomics sequel

Called Superfreakonomics, naturally...




Oh - and there's a quiz here

Trailer for Fantastic Mr Fox

Here's the first trailer for the stopmotion film of Fantastic Mr Fox that I was talking about on Wednesday:



Looks like they've Americanised it a lot, which seems a shame because I've always seen it as one of the more 'British' Roald Dahl books, along with Danny The Champion of The World, unlike say Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, and James & the Giant Peach which were clearly based around America and American culture.

We shall see...

The Time Travelers Wife Trailer

New trailer - film out in August. Starring Eric Bana & Rachel McAdams. This was our favourite light read. It will inevitably get compared to Benjamin Button, which also an adaptation, of course.



I've worked out that 24 of the books we've read to date have been filmed, including TV productions, - All Quiet on the Western Front, American Psycho, Atonement, Beloved, Brighton Rock, Children of Men, Doctor Zhivago, Great Gatsby, Lolita, Metamorphosis, Notes on a Scandal, On the Road, Persepolis, Scoop, Stuart - A Life Backwards, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Name of the Rose, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Tin Drum, To Kill a Mockingbird, & Wuthering Heights.

More about Time Traveler here

How books are published

This very entertaining video from Macmillan USA looks at the journey from typewriter to bookstore.



So now we know!