Sighs In The Attic
“Fear overtook me then. Not fear of him, but fear of myself, of the inner life I’d held privately for so long, my desire, my carnal longings, all threatened to rise to the surface and engulf me.” Guess who is saying this? Jane Eyre about Rochester! It had to happen some day—Jane Eyre Laid Bare is an erotic retelling of the classic by British author Eve Sinclair. “It explores the smouldering sexual chemistry between Jane and Rochester and exposes the sensual underbelly of a highly regarded work of literature”. Fair is fair, Charlotte Bronte’s name appears above Sinclair’s on the book cover.
Book-Help Seekers
While on classics, book apps are all the rage. It started with Faber’s app, The Wasteland, where Eliot’s poem came alive with a filmed performance by Fiona Shaw, Ted Hughes and Alec Guinness reading it, and interactive notes explaining the many references. Now many other such exciting apps are on the works like Shakespeare’s sonnets, Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. What fun it would be to get apps like these for, say, Haroun and Sea of Stories or The Sea of Poppies!
Missing A Maclean
Ek Tha Tiger may have started it with the curvaceous ‘Z’ as the deadly ISI agent and ‘Tiger’ as our own RAW sleuth, but now it’s spilling over to books. The Shadow Throne is a thriller where the ISI and RAW, hold your breath, come together to avert a nuclear disaster in our subcontinent. Thrillers have been eminently putdownable in a country bereft of a Forsyth or Follet. Can TST change that?