Five foamy reads.
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Elizabeth Bear is a Hugo-winning author whose books regularly deal with questions of gender, sexuality and identity. Her first novel was published in 2005 and she has since received awards ranging from the John W. Campbell for Best New Writer to the...
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The school holidays used to be great for tackling an entire series or a certain theme. Which books once filled your vacations?We've dealt with the grown-ups, this week it's the children's turn. In tomorrow's Guardian Review, Julia Eccleshare is selecti...
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We asked our bike bloggers and Twitter followers to suggest cycle-themed books to read on your holidays. Here's the best of the bunchWhether your summer break is an epic two-wheeled trek on a rugged tourer kitted out with fully loaded panniers, or a re...
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She’s one of fiction’s most famous enchantresses—capricious and charismatic, capable of breaking the heart and enriching the spirit. She demands her place as the center of attention, the axis around which a writer’s world spi...
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In the week that the 2010 Man Booker longlist was announced, Claire Armitstead talks to Sarah Crown and Rodney Troubridge of Waterstone's about the critical and commercial potential of the books that made the cut, and asks why booksellers and readers a...
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Using social networks to broadcast her message, novelist Anne Rice declared "I quit Christianity" yesterday.From the comments section to our Facebook page, a number of GalleyCat readers responded to her controversial comments. Gabe Lyons, the autho...
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Colour-coded paperbacks launched in 1935 as cheap, disposable fiction have now become collectible itemsWhen the first Penguin paperbacks appeared they cost just sixpence – the price of a packet of cigarettes – and were hardly intended to be endurin...
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Earlier this year, novelist Tony D'Souza finished a novel that completely broke out of the style of his first two novels, Whiteman and The Konkans.When he turned the manuscript in to his agent, Liz Darhansoff, they seriously discussed publishing t...
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Three novels that span the 20th century's tumult.
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Twelve years after she converted from atheism, author of Interview with the Vampire abandons Christianity over its attitude to birth control, homosexuality and scienceTwelve years after she converted to Christianity from atheism, bestselling author Ann...
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In just a decade, Chris Hamilton-Emery's expert navigation has led this small Cambridge press to the margins of the big leagueIt was Cyril Connolly who said that literary magazines should only run for 10 years. After that, he seemed to imply, they're i...
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July 30: On this day in 1818 Emily Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire. Most accounts portray Emily as the brightest, most intense, and most difficult of the three sisters. Charlotte thought her a "nursling of the moors," her spirit transported int...
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Join us for an NBCC Reads Conversation on Books about Conjugal Love at Book Passage in Corte Madera, August 4, 7 pm, with NBCC President, Jane Ciabattari, Balakian winner Molly Giles, NBCC members Meredith Maran and Greg Sarris. Included in the dis...
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Four new romances that twist old plots—from Cinderella to Cyrano, Pygmalion to Jane Eyre—to fit these times.
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Do you agree with the US list of the top magazine features of the past 50 years – and what else would you include?The US website Cool Tools has compiled a list of the best magazine articles of all time that has sparked much online debate.No doubt com...
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