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Monday, July 28, 2014 from theBookseller.comThe European Commission is to take "a few more weeks" to finalise its White Paper on...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsThe West Yorkshire town of Kirklees is contemplating closure of all but two of its 26 libraries, along with other services like braille books for blind readers, as one option while it seeks to more than halve its library budget. Accordin...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Digital Book WorldThere’s a lot of discussion about the importance of metadata in publishing and bookselling, but confusion remains about what it is and how to do it well. Here are five things you should know. 1. Metadata isn’t a new concept. Recording &#...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
In a move that industry watchers are already calling a direct competition to Amazon’s purchase of book discovery platform Goodreads, TechCrunch has reported through an anonymous tip that Apple has bought Boise, Idaho-based BookLamp... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from theBookseller.comSelf-published author Richard Veitch has been signed by Joanna Swainson at Hardman and Swainson...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from theBookseller.comOrchard Books has acquired a new YA fantasy series from Melissa de la Cruz, author of the Blue...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsAccidentally Going Digital (Book Riot) I suppose this led to a gradual build-up of digital in my life, as books I really, really wanted to read were available, but only digitally. So what choice did I have? Lacking that choice meant more...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Digital Book World[Press Release] Amazon Customers Become Designers with New 3D Printed Products Store Offering Customizable Fashion Accessories, Toys, Home Décor and More The new 3D Printed Products store enables customers to customize and personalize it...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Digital Book World
Apple quietly acquires BookLamp, debating the best strategy for iBooks, authors heckle the Authors Guild, Pearson sales dip during Random House integration, Adobe's new fixed-layout export and much more. - The emotional physics of falling apart and 'Falling Into Place.'
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from theBookseller.comThe overall book market including print and digital fell by 4% in 2013, according to Nielsen Book...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from FutureBook blogsJoin us each Friday when our #FutureChat with The Bookseller's FutureBook community focuses on a topic in publishing and the digital dynamic. We'll be live on Twitter at 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. New York time, 8 a.m. Los Angeles, 5 p....
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Digital Book World
If you’re one of the many self-published novelists who gets chills of dread when you hear the word “metadata,” this article is for you. Like Sesame Street’s Grover, who had no reason to be scared of the nonexistent monster at the e... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
There are millions of apps floating around out there, and you’ve installed a good number of them… which are worth keeping? Often the best apps on your smartphone or tablet came to reside there by way of recommendations from f... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesThe Romance Writers of America conference offered endless opportunities for fans, aspirants, and bestselling authors to interact and self-promote.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesLast week's 2014 Romance Writers of America conference was relentlessly upbeat, emphasizing professionalism and inclusion – and yes, ripped bodices and abs.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Santa Monica hotel Shutters on the Beach is doing something very interesting. They will buy the books you want to read during your holiday and have them awaiting you in the room upon check in In order to have one or a bunch of books wait... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
For lovers of the genre, great news came out of Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con video game panel: Marvel Contest of Champions is headed to Android this fall! The official press release whets our appetite, but doesn’t offer much ... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
I know everybody out there search for a job is wishing that it was as easy to find that next position as it is to find the next love of your life. Or maybe not, but thanks to a new app (and $630,000 in seed money raised by the developers... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from The Nook Blog
July 28, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is THE SHEPHERD — a fast-paced thriller sure to keep you up at night – for just $2.99. Overview Marcus Williams and Francis Ackerman Jr. both have a talent for hurting people. Mar... -
Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Verdict: 5 Stars This book was fun for the very reason that books are meant to be read: it provided an escape into a world of “wouldn’t it be great if I could, but I never will.” In Freudberg’s title, main charact... -
Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Scholastic, the award-winning powerhouse in children’s publishing, made a quiet announcement today that their ebook reading app Storia would be closing, making way for a bigger focus on its Storia School Edition subscription readin... -
Sunday, July 27, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsWell who’d a thought it: An almost local tourism-level themed anthology confined to a short stretch of English coastline that turns out to be a surprisingly good collection of modern British horror and dark fiction. Of course, it h...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsBritain's leaders reveal they plan to devour books about politics, lies, betrayal... and the complexitities of the European Union
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsI found a great little write-up at Lifehacker about Leanne Brown—a student in food studies who, as part of her course project, has released two gorgeous cookbooks on cheap, healthy home cooking. The best part? Both books are availa...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsUncovering the Inner Workings of the Author Earnings Report (GoodeReader) Hugh Howey, bestselling author and much of the driving force behind the Author Earnings report, spoke with Good e-Reader about some of the accusations that have be...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'Sally Green's gritty approach to witches has received heaps of praise which for the main part is completely deserved' Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsOne of the most commonly-heard complaints about Amazon, at least in Europe, is that it sells e-books from a division based in Luxembourg so that it can charge a much lower VAT (Value-Added Tax, the European equivalent of sales tax) rate ...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesLaurie Kellogg has self-published nine romance novels since February 2012 and says she's making more money and having more fun than ever before in her life.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksCompetition between publishing houses here and in the US means they stand little chance of ending Amazon's dominance Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksSchenkel returns with an excellent dark tale set in rural community and based on real events Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I really enjoyed this book and I liked how the story took you into two worlds: Donna's and the wood elves' Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksRichard Layard and David M Clark's polemic about mental illness is a revelation but they're a little too sure they have all the answers Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksStyle matches subject matter in Richard Marsh's account of how he conquered locked-in syndrome Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksPeter Oborne's history of Pakistani cricket goes to the heart of the troubled nation's relationship with the sport Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksMystical adventure, time travel and the space between waking life and the subconscious nothing is quite what it seems Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsCatherine Blyth on Sue Miller's 'The Arsonist', a profoundly satisfying novel about a long, hot American summer
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksArtist Peter Sis shares sketches from his beautiful homage to Antoine de Saint Exupéry: The Pilot and the Little Prince , which tells the moving life story of aviator, pioneer, war hero and author of the much-loved children's book The Li...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'His ambitious saga is convincingly doorstopper-ish and starts off promisingly, but as I find myself racing through it, ticking off clichés one by one, my hopes start to wilt' Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Marvel is attending the San Diego Comic Con in a big way and is spearheading many discussion groups, where the top brass is announcing the future. A few months ago Disney announced that all Expanded Universe books are not considered cano... -
Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFirst love, outcasts, a road trip and a dystopian future feature in this month's psychologically engaging selection Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA bereaved tortoise, a smelly dog and a book on crafts will keep kids busy through the summer months Continue reading...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsAuthor of more than 20 novels who revised Wild West mythology with 'Little Big Man'
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsHenry Thoreau's retreat to Walden Pond continues to influence US culture even today, says Nicholas Blincoe
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The English department and student library are undergoing some trying times when it comes to reading classic literature. A very high majority of young scholars find it a chore to have to read or being forced to do it. The libraries are s... -
Sunday, July 27, 2014 from The Nook Blog
July 27, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA – Colleen McCullough tells a timeless tale of love, politics, and power, proving that she is one of the best historical novelists of our time – for just $... -
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of Books
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksThe subtitle of Nikil Saval’s book is curiously inapt. Cubed is not a ‘secret history of the workplace’, but the not (entirely) secret history of a very particular kind of workplace. The main title is intended to pull that particular wor...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksBy the time he was elected to the Académie française in 2004, Alain Robbe-Grillet had suffered a cruel fate: he had all the renown he could have hoped for but few readers to show for it. The literary movement he’d launched half a century...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksWhat happens when you set out to look the present in the eye but can’t quite bear the thought? Much of David Marquand’s powerful essay about ‘Britain, now’ is an elegy for a lost past, unsullied by ‘masterless capitalism’, a sad story of...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksI have worked in an atomic weapons depot, a Veterans’ psychiatric hospital and a perfectly awful mental hospital for juveniles, and in all of these places I did what I was told to do, and gave my notice when I had had it with the life th...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of Books
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of Books
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksThe letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 15 (31 July 2014)
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from London Review of BooksTable of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 15 (31 July 2014)
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA little girl’s friends and siblings scheme to keep her sleepwalking habit under control in this debut children’s chapter book. Jennie is finally old enough to go to summer camp, but her mom won’t let her go. She’...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe murder of a teenager rocks a remote settlement in Canada’s high Arctic. Summer brings many changes to Ellesmere Island, on the northern edge of Nunavut. The ice thins, dovekies return to build their nests on the cliffs, and peo...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA meditation on the evaporation of American exceptionalism. The nation’s perception of community is undergoing major reconstruction, writes journalist and Clinton Foundation senior fellow Dunkelman in this shrewd examination, which...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA literary scholar investigates the cultural meaning of food. In this exuberant, wide-ranging look at what, how and why we eat, Gilbert ( Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions , 2011, etc.) turns to poets and...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA distinguished journalist and former Marine’s account of returning home from Vietnam and finding personal and professional success despite life-altering disfigurement. In January 1967, Timberg ( State of Grace: A Memoir of Twiligh...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksEdmund White Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality by Jo Becker Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Children's Book Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 28, 2014SCBWI ANNOUNCES 2014 BOOK LAUNCH AWARD WINNERSThe Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 SCBWI Book Launch Award. The annual award, establishe... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Don’t miss The Summer Sale, with 500 books from £0.99. The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: Speak Swahili, Dammit!: A tragic, funny African childhood (£0.99 UK; $4.90/KU US) by James Penhaligon [Trevelyan Publishers] Th... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Book PatrolTalk about an elephant in the room. via Infographic Plaza
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Books on the Knob
In addition to the Batman Comicbook Sale, which is continuing, there are a couple of other Comicbook sales going on: the Dark Horse Comic-Con sale (up to 80% off), the IDW Cartoon Network Comics $0.99 Sale, Kindle Comics & Graphic N... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Dear Author
Dear L.A. Witt, When this book came up for review, I was particularly interested in it because of the Japanese setting. And the descriptions of Okinawa did turn out to be the highlight of the book for me. The landscape... more -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Book Portal Site
The grand prize winner is Patti-Kay Hamilton of Fort Smith, NT. Read her story, "The Hunter and The Swan." -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogWhen I met with some folks from the Forever team during RWA last week, one of the publicists casually mentioned Kissed by the Wave , a mermaid erotica releasing next week from their Forever Yours imprint. I immediately begged her to emai...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Potter has been singled out by none other than Margaret Atwood as being a inspiration. Read Atwood's great story about what Potter's stories have meant to her. -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Book Portal Site
The Next Chapter columnist Treasa Levasseur says if you like The Human Stain by Philip Roth, you'll love the Canadian novel Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler. Find out why. -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe layers of texts is very professional. Is it music? Is it poetry? Is it art? It is a bit of everything in a very skillful and sensitive mixture. "Had I lived in my head, even if passionately ...Link!
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogWell! A lot happens this episode! They’re not kidding with this ad campaign, “Darkness is rising,” because a lot of people die this episode — including a series regular! — tentacle man makes a reappearance, and there’s incest. You guys. ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksBéla Zombory-Moldován The barrage rolls forward. Ten minutes. Then they start again from the rear. The continuous deafening explosions, the howling of the flying shell fragments have practically stupefied me. Beside me, between salvos, M...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogWith our column, Forewords, we let readers know the latest book news about some of the web team's most-anticipated upcoming releases across the genres — just as the projects are announced! DEBUT AUTHORS Mainstream - Emily Cogburn is read...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Cuddlebuggery Book Blog
Want to get a taste of an upcoming title without a full review or spoilers? We’re here to do that for you! It’s not a real review, and there are definitely no spoilers – just a bunch of reasons to read or not read or pass on this title. ... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogSomething seems wrong when the publication that symbolizes American capitalism and business journalism is sold off to investors in Hong Kong. The American dream has been outsourced. For $300 million the Forbes family, which has owned For...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from The Bookshop BlogSo who are these three women eager to bring a bookstore to Rockville Centre, which is on the South Shore of Long Island? Peggy, Dianne and Carol think it’s important to let their patrons know why they are the ones to bring Turn of the Co...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
Is it the great literary heist of 2014? Readers are about to see what’s been -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe eventfulness of the last Stuart monarch’s 12-year reign, from 1702 to 1714, compensates for its brevity. Among other things Anne and her administrations dealt with union with Scotland, ongoing war in Europe, the far-reaching 1714 Tre...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Dear Author
To love, honor and betray… After surviving the painful disintegration of her marriage, Alexia is finally ready to follow her dream. When she applies for a patent on the product she’s invented, she discovers someone has beaten her to it—h... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from Katie's Book Blog
I recently caved and read Colleen Hoover’s book, Slammed. I was hugely impressed with it and I was really looking forward to checking out the sequel, Point of Retreat. While I did enjoy the book, I was actually quite disappointed... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedIn Kerry Hudson’s accomplished second novel, a security guard catches a young shoplifter in the act and they drift first into a tentative friendship and then an uneasy relationship in which neither can entirely trust the other. The story...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedWe all know Neil Gaiman, even if we don’t read comics or fantasy novels, or watch Doctor Who or blockbuster movies. He’s the rock-star author who always dresses in black, the English guy America has claimed as one of its own. He’s the ma...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedOne day in an endlessly hot summer, John Cole heads to Norfolk to visit his brother; he gets lost, seeks help. At a nearby, grandly dilapidated house, he is mysteriously greeted by name: they were expecting him. There’s the ugly, materna...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe cuisine that’s the dominating trend in London is Middle Eastern. They’re packing them in at The Palomar, Arabica, Honey & Co and Alan Yau (of Wagamama fame) is opening a Turkish flatbread joint. But you can savour the delights of...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Book News & FeaturesAlso: an excerpt of Haruki Murakami's new book; notable books coming out this week.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe Poets’ Daughters by Katie Waldegrave (Windmill £9.99)
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #63: Lab Rats with Existential Problems This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the 50 Shades of Grey trailer, HarperCollins dips its toe into print/digital bundling, another Amazon overture to Hachet... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedDebbie Taylor is living proof of the saying: if you want something done, ask a busy woman. This is a woman who once jacked in a fascinating career as a research psychologist to go and write novels in a mud hut on the edge of the Kalahari...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
If there’s one thing I spend a lot of time championing around here, it’s that everyone should read whatever they want without shame, and they should read it in whatever format gives them the most pleasure and ease of use. ... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Punctuation. What is it good for? Absolutely everything. Well, at least two things: making meaningful sentences and inspiring beautiful jewelry. Antique, new, precious, costume: whatever floats your punctuation jewelry boat. There’... -
Monday, July 28, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Summer is upon us yet again and so it’s time to pick the books we take with us on vacation. During the summer my family and I travel with a group of other, like-minded families (you know; kids the same … Continued You just fi...
