Daily Bookshot: Yay turns to Heyyyy!!

I’ve got a bone to pick with Penguin Classics )

On The Radar: Russian and European anthologies, plus a Tolstoy collection from Penguin

A delicious anthology of Russian new fiction from Tin House Books. An annual anthology of European fiction. A collection of Tolstoy’s private papers from Penguin.

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 10th August 2009

Scottish Book Trust’s ‘Book That Changed My Life” initiative. Herman Melville comes to Fifty-Two Stories. Calder Bookshop hosting Tolstoy event

Daily Bookshot: Tolstoy to Treasure

Tolstoy’s collected shorter fiction as arrived, and it’s everything I’d expected…and more

Reading Journal: Wed 24th June 2009

07:00 – A Tolstoyan start to the day with a read through of Alyosha the Pot (can be read for free at Fifty-Two Stories). A great story, albeit short, but ohh so sad. Not a clever move starting off the day with such a depressing story perhaps, even if I did enjoy it. On a [...]

Cover Love: Harper’s Classic Short Story Collections

Take half-a-dozen carefully selected colours, add a cardboard cutout effect for each of the authors, and you have a luscious new series from Harper that one just can’t help falling in love with.

Welcome to the latest in the series that celebrates with a passion, the glorious art of the book cover.