Melville House launch Moby Awards for Best and Worst Book Trailers - Love 'em or hate 'em book trailers are becoming more and more a common feature of our literary landscape these days. So much so that indy New York publisher Melville House have … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: Heavenly Hemingway
September 27, 2009 By 7 Comments
Heavenly Hemingway, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. It would have been during the summer of last year that I was ambling around Ebay and stumbled across an amazing set of 10 Ernest Hemingway titles from Arrow Books (an imprint of Random … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: Hemingway’s Secrets
May 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Hemingway's Secrets, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. When people come to my home and ask me which book in my library is my most favourite, I invariably head towards my Hemingway section and pull down an aged and yellowed 1965 copy of … [Read more...]
‘Book Bites’ for Saturday 7th March 2009
March 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dodging ‘book missiles’ at the Shakespeare and Co Bookshop - In an article for the Guardian, Jeanette Winterson recounts a recent visit to the Shakespeare and Company Bookshop in Paris, and her warm interactions with its aged and long-term owner … [Read more...]