You may have noticed that the print edition of Stylist wasn't around at your local station this week. Well, fear not, your favourite magazine hasn’t disappeared; we’re just taking a week's break to have a well-earned rest and get ready for some of the exciting things we have planned for the autumn.

In its place, however, we've got a very special digital edition that you can download on your phone or tablet - all centred around books. And we're particularly proud of its cover, based on possibly the most iconic design in recent literary history, the Penguin tri-colour.

This year has seen some epic publishing moments: from a little-known author becoming a literary sensation thanks to the morning commute (The Girl On The Train) to the ‘discovery’ of a writing legend’s lost novel (Go Set A Watchman) but one of the biggest stories of the year is the 80th birthday of Penguin Books.

This is the brand that brought Emily Bronte to the masses, went to court over DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960 and published Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses (causing Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to sentence the author to death for ‘insulting’ Islam). It’s the publisher behind such diverse names Jane Austen, Marian Keyes, Franz Kafka, Roald Dahl and Jacqueline Wilson.

Launched in 1935 by Allen Lane, the company was created as a response to the lack of good, affordable literature available to the average reader on the street. Lane had the ingenious idea of selling paperbacks for sixpence and within two years sold three million books. It’s a formula that’s still paying off: one in every 32 books sold in the UK is a Penguin Classic.

Behind the scenes: how we created this week's amazing Penguin Classics inspired cover