Waterstones ends unpaid work placements after investigation
Waterstones stops using unpaid jobseekers, as government rebuts claim that scheme is contrary to Human Rights ActThe high street book store Waterstones has pulled out of a government scheme that employed unpaid jobseekers in its stores after a Guardian...
Lexicographers cram ‘squeezed middle’ into word of the year slot
Phrase Ed Miliband ushered into widespread use beats bunga bunga and occupy to award lavished on 'big society' last yearAfter a year defined by economic turmoil, austerity and cutbacks, the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary have chosen the phr...
Notting Hill bookshop fights closure with poets and writers
The Travel Bookshop played a starring role in the 1999 film with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, but is now due to closePoets and writers are engaged in fighting to save a west London bookshop which served as the backdrop for the on-screen romance betwee...
Harry Potter author JK Rowling leaves her agent
Author who recently launched Pottermore website for electronic books had worked with Christopher Little since 1996JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter novels, has confirmed that she has "terminated" her long-running association with the literary ...
