Costa Book Awards get ‘shorted’. A cause for celebration?

So, the headline news at the Costa Book Awards ceremony in London last night may have been the (deserved) victory of Andrew Miller who took the title of Costa Book of the Year with his novel Pure (Sceptre), but the bigger news for me - and every … [Read more...]

Daily Bookshot: Wonderful as wallpaper!

Wonderful as wallpaper!, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. I remember being around on Twitter last week when Sceptre Books revealed the cover art for David Mitchell's eagerly anticipated latest novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet. … [Read more...]