While rereading John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, I re-watched the 1981 TV series. While I was as underwhelmed by the series as I was in 1981, the book remains a classic, but did the illustrator actually read the book's description of the triffids?

#JohnWyndham #TheDayoftheTriffids #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #booksky #Britishsciencefiction

Titelbild für
"Out of This World" hsg. von Julius Fast
Penguin Books 537, March 1946
(AmeS)

#fantasy #PenguinBooks #JuliusFast

After re-watching the 3 Chocky TV series, I re-read John Wyndham's book. He really was a phenomenal writer. The first series is faithful to the book. The second, expands the story very well. The third series is a letdown. It is generic children's sci-fi, very badly miscast and derailed by sidelining the main character who underpinned the whole story.

#JohnWyndham #Chocky #Sci-fi #Sciencefiction #SF #Penguinbooks #sciencefictionbooks #Britishsciencefiction

Just laid hands on this beautiful hard cover book

*India’s Forests* : Revisiting Nature and History

A compilation of essays from some very cool researchers & writers with a foreword by an amazing historian Dr Shekhar Pathak, while the editors, Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan have a rich history of great writing as well.

Looking forward to reading this

https://www.penguin.co.in/book/indias-forests

#books #IndiasNature #Forests #Essays #history #environment #Communities #Ecology #PenguinBooks #Culture

#1199 Thor Heyerdahl - Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st Penguin edition, 6th reprint.

#ThorHeyerdahl #PenguinBooks #EasterIsland #RapaNui #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

I haven’t actually finished any of the books that I’ve already started reading, but I’m going to start to read this today and hope to finish it before the day is over. Happy Darwin Day everyone!

#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #CharlesDarwin #OnNaturalSelection #Evolution #NaturalSelection #TheoryOfEvolution #DarwinDay #PenguinBooksGreatIdeas #GreatIdeas #PenguinBooks

#1172 Denys Val Baker (ed) - Cornish Short Stories. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st edition.

#DenysValBaker #PenguinBooks #Cornwall #JackClemo #DaphneDuMaurier #WinstonGraham #CharlesCausley #ALRowse #BookOfTheDay

Mystery Mile is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1930, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds Publishing, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Following his first, supporting appearance in The Crime at Black Dudley (1929), it is the first of many novels starring the mysterious Albert Campion, and introduces his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg. - Wikipedia

Albert Campion is much more central in the second volume of the series, and we find out more about him. Not so sure this is comfy crime given some of the grisly deaths. I look forward to Look To The Lady!

#MargeryAllingham #AlbertCampion #MysteryMile #Reading #Novels #ClassicCrime #PenguinBooks

Spotted a post by #PenguinBooks (UK) with great tips on how to start writing a novel. 😉✍️ #writers #writing #amwriting #novel

Link to article on Penguin Books (UK) website: https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/how-to-start-writing-a-book

I have a front-of-catalog book coming out this spring with #PenguinBooks and MIT.

Famous professors try to sleep with 14 year old girls.

I'm asked to exhume a famous corpse.

A 12-year-old is stolen, the world's oldest man is debunked, and a CIA bloke accuses us of being Kremlin spies in #WaPo.

People die.

It's a non-fiction book.

You might be in it. Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge professors are in it. Billionaires you know are in it, too.

Order it now.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052719/morbid/