Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon
Waterstones promise to make ebooks 'dramatically better' by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already it's the end of the world. Instead of teaming up with Barnes and Noble to cast out the ...
Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon
Waterstones promise to make ebooks 'dramatically better' by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already it's the end of the world. Instead of teaming up with Barnes and Noble to cast out the ...
Reader reviews roundup
Opinions is divided, but this week Can Themba and Charles Dickens join Suzanne Collins on the ever-growing to-read pileOpinionsLtd is in two minds about Penguin's collected Can Themba, Requiem for Sophiatown with "roughly half" of the stories falling f...
Don’t judge a book by the ad on its cover
With publishers in China set to plaster book covers with advertisements, which commercial match-ups would you like to see on your shelves?Chalk it up as another brilliant innovation – or a sign of the impending apocalypse – as China Daily reports t...
Is the London Book Fair supporting Chinese censorship?
Should a state that bans and censors books and imprisons writers be guest of honour at the 2012 London Book Fair? Richard Lea talks to organisers, writers and activists on both sides of the story"The west should not let itself be duped," says the Chine...
JK Rowling: further details of first adult novel emerge
The Casual Vacancy – whose title has been revealed for the first time – will be a black comedy about 'a town at war'JK Rowling's first novel aimed at adults will be a "blackly comic" tale of small town politics that at first glance couldn't be fur...
Can short fiction take us to China?
As literary London turns east, we bring together short stories from some of the most exciting writers working in China todayIt all started with a question from the translator Nicky Harman: "What are you going to do about the market focus on China at th...
2012 Olympics inspire love poetry across Britain
The traditional Olympics truce has inspired a 'peace camp' that will bring poetry readings to remote coastal sites across the UKThe islands will be full of noises this summer, when a series of "peace camps" inspired by the Olympics will be set up on s...
China Miéville heads Arthur C Clarke award shortlist – again
Author of Embassytown will go up against SF heavyweights Greg Bear and Sheri S Tepper in bid to win for fourth timeChina Miéville joins SF heavy-hitters Charles Stross, Greg Bear and Sheri S Tepper on the shortlist for the 2012 Arthur C Clarke award, ...
Reader reviews roundup
Lessons in life from Caitlin Moran, Moore echoes of Cather and an important announcementOn first reading, I thought Workingclassgirl had made a bit of a slip, opening with the observation that "it is wonderful to be presented with modern fiction which ...
Poetry Review editor resigns
After damaging ructions at the Poetry Society last year, the editor of its journal says parting is 'on very good and cheerful terms'The concluding lines of the epic row which engulfed the Poetry Society last summer have been written, with the resignati...
Syrian authors condemn ‘savage’ Homs bombardment
Poet Adonis and novelist Khaled Khalifa speak out against actions of Assad regimeTwo of Syria's most prominent authors have spoken out against the military actions of the regime. Adonis, widely held as the Arabic-speaking world's greatest living poet, ...
