‘Book Bites’ for Friday 6th March 2009

World Book Day UK winner announced - World Book Day in the UK came and went, and it was recognised better in some places than in others :o). However, one of the most important events taking place yesterday if you remember, was the announcement of the … [Read more...]

My local newspaper got right behind World Book Day….not!

So today was World Book Day in the UK (as I’ve stated a few times already), and getting right into the spirit of things my local weekly newspaper ran a kind of ‘whattcha reading?’ viewpoints feature on some members of the local public. I was … [Read more...]

‘Book Bites’ for Monday 2nd March 2009

Short story No. 9 served up at Fifty-Two Stories - Over at the Harper Perennial 'powered' short story website, Cal’s posted the new FREE offering for this week - What Saffi Knew by Carol Windley. I had a quick skim of the first paragraph and it’s … [Read more...]

RobAroundBookLists: Spread the Word’s 2009 short list

Perfectly timed for this week’s RobAroundBookLists feature, is today’s news that the short list for Spread The Word 2009 has been announced. Comprised of the top ten contemporary ‘word of mouth’ titles as chosen by the voting public, the … [Read more...]