This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade in the pages of Astounding magazine (later to be known as Analog that very year). In celebration, Baen Books is releasing an anniversary paperback edit...
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Former PM cancels scheduled appearance at Waterstone's store in Piccadilly days after eggs and shoes were thrown at him in DublinTony Blair today cancelled a high-profile signing of his new memoirs in central London amid warnings that he would face a h...
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Evie Wyld, whose debut novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys prize, has written a short story, The Whales, exclusively for Booktrust, where she is currently writer-in-residence. Here we join Jimmy, Elaine, Terry and...
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Mortal Kiss will be a serialised paranormal romance targeted at teenage girlsThe publisher Random House is exploiting the trend for vampire romance through an interactive story project in partnership with Stardoll, the social gaming site for teenage gi...
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade in the pages of Astounding magazine (later to be known as Analog that very year). In celebration, Baen Books is releasing an anniversary paperback edit...
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I must sternly advise readers not to approach Douglas Perry's The Girls of Murder City without being aware of the risks they run. Like the hero of Jack Finney's Time and Again, who steeped himself so intensely in vintage surroundings that he became un...
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The City and the City and The Windup Girl draw equal numbers of votes for prestigious science fiction prizeFor only the third time in its 57 years of existence there has been a dead heat in the Hugo award for best novel, with China Miéville's The City...
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Kidnapped Austrian schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch's autobiography reveals details of her 3,096 days in captivityNatascha Kampusch, the Austrian woman who was kidnapped and held captive for more than eight years, has told of how she tried to kill herself ...
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Bookshops are crucial infrastructure for any free society. The retail chain, which once exemplified this, seems to have lost touch with thisWhatever happened to Waterstone's? Like many bookshop lovers, and fans of Tim Waterstone's achievements in the 1...
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The new issue of the Quarterly Conversation includes an interesting essay by Barrett Hathcock proposing that Nicholson Baker is a kind of missing link between John Updike and David Foster Wallace. Baker, Hathcock argues, fetishized Updike’s concern with exacting detail, … Continue reading →
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Former PM considers pulling out of event, citing concern about 'hassle and cost' to police following skirmishes at previous signing in DublinTony Blair is considering cancelling a book signing in London after eggs and shoes were thrown at him at a simi...
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For Ralph Miliband governments could never tame capitalism. New Labour thought otherwise – and then came the financial crisis. But what will David or Ed do if they gain the leadership? By John GrayViewed from one angle Ralph Miliband was a theorist o...
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Protesters chanted 'Butcher Blair', but others noted his achievements for peace in Northern IrelandLiterature and politics have always laid claim to Dublin's O'Connell Street, bookended by statues of James Joyce and Catholic emancipator Daniel O'Connel...
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The author and well-known advocate of atheism, who is suffering from cancer, has asked that people refrain from 'troubling deaf heaven' over his plightAuthor and vociferous atheist Christopher Hitchens, who was diagnosed with cancer this summer, has ap...
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Facebook protest group takes time to 'reclassify' the former prime minister's memoirs in British book shopsWhen Tony Blair called his much-awaited memoirs A Journey, he probably expected its journey into bookshops would be relatively straightforward.Bu...
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With the Book of Common Prayer, marriage takes its place at the heart of domestic and civil societyThe solemnisation of matrimony, best loved and known of the Book of Common Prayer's occasional offices, looks backward and forward. The rite recapitulate...
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