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Radio 2 Book Club – The Last Days of Jack Sparks

On Monday 5 September, Jason Arnopp will be on the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss his funny and terrifying thriller, The Last Days of Jack Sparks.

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The Last Days of Jack Sparks

Jack Sparks died while writing this book.

It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he’d already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed.

Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account.

Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed – until now.

Jason Arnopp is a British author and scriptwriter. His background is in journalism; he has worked on titles such as Heat, Q, The Word, Kerrang!, SFX and Doctor Who Magazine. He has written comedy for Radio 4 and official tie-in fiction for Doctor Who and Friday The 13th, but The Last Days of Jack Sparks is the first novel which is entirely Jason’s own fault (though some may prefer to lay the blame on Jack…).

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