It seems that the whole online world has gone short story crazy in the past wee while. The Great Books Foundation launched its Short Story Omnibus. StorySouth released the longlists for their Million Writers Award. John Madera launched his awesome … [Read more...]
Book designer CS Richardson’s nuggets of wisdom
March 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Presumably to generate a bit of extra promotion for one of the books designed by him (Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner), Portobello Books has posted a nice article by CS Richardson on the glorious subject of book design. This is a man who by his own … [Read more...]
Hamish Hamilton’s Five Dials Magazine: It ain’t half bad (and it’s FREE)
January 21, 2009 By 2 Comments
There I am going through my usual morning routine of ‘feed reading’ on Bloglines, when I stumbled across the mention in one of my favourite bookish blogs - dovegreyreader scribbles (I just adore the way she writes), of a literary magazine I’ve … [Read more...]
Wishlist: A Journey into Steinbeck’s California by Susan Shillinglaw
January 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
Ali, in a review over at her blog worducopia, pointed me to a 'must have' book today, that's gone instantly on my wishlist for near-future purchase - A Journey into Steinbeck's California by Susan Shillinglaw. Anyone who knows me, or reads this … [Read more...]
The Book Design Review: ‘Favorite Book Covers of 2008′
December 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
As anyone who reads my evangalising of Coralie Bickford-Smith (and here) would know, I've got a bit of a passion for book covers (hasn't all bibliophiles?), and although I never fall foul of that old adage of judging a book by its cover, I've got a … [Read more...]
The Guardian: “A literary crawl of New York”
November 29, 2008 By 1 Comment
Despite having never visited the place (yet!), I make no apologies for my incurable obsession with anything New York. I've spoken about this obsession on the blogosphere often (and featured my favourite New York 'blogger' Teri Tynes as Reader of the … [Read more...]
The Independent: ’50 Best Winter Reads’
November 15, 2008 By 2 Comments
The Independent has posted an interesting rundown of what they consider to be their top 50 winter reads. The selection is both intriguing and eclectic, covering most literary tastes, and pretty much all age-groups. Titles range from classics such … [Read more...]
Guardian Books: Top 10 ‘Circadian Novels’
October 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
John Mullan over at Guardian Books has an interesting article on what he considers to be the top 10 'circadian novels'. Are you familiar with the term? I wasn't until it was explained that novels coming under the tag of circadian, are ones where the … [Read more...]
Knockout bookstores around the globe
October 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Coming courtesy of her friend Josh, Ann Kingman over at Books on the Nightstand links to a very nice article entitled Most Interesting Bookstores of the World, which shows a few select images of some of the world's more unusual and/or interesting … [Read more...]