Reading Journal: Tuesday 1st June 2010

And so fellow reader we hit June, beautiful June. It's the beginning of a new month and to some small degree the door has started opening for summer. We're not quite there yet of course, but Tuesday's always feel like a summer's day to me because I … [Read more...]

Reading Journal: Monday 17th May 2010

The start of a new week and I was surprisingly upbeat about my reading after having a weekend of doubt and doldrums. I guess I was still disappointed at not having met my challenge to read the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist before the … [Read more...]

Why Rob is going to be ‘shorting out’ throughout the month of May

And so here we are into the month of May, and If the reading schedule at RobAround Manor wasn't packed enough already - with both my Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist and Totally Knut reading projects running at full throttle at the moment … [Read more...]

Book News: UK cover revealed for Gaiman and Sarrantonio’s upcoming ‘Stories’

It's not often that I would get so focused on news of a cover being revealed, but this one is a little closer to me than most. You may remember last month that I featured Stories as a Daily Bookshot, that really exciting short story anthology from … [Read more...]

Daily Bookshot: “And then what happened?”

"And then what happened?", originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. As today's Daily Bookshot shows, the job of toiling away for endless hours over the keyboard can sometimes bring rich benefits. This is a shot of something that I'm … [Read more...]