…a penchant for old-school travel found himself a residency with a shipping line company. That would certainly give you a lot of time to write distraction-free. In the states Amtrak…

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Which fictional characters in your opinion have lived on far beyond the turn of the last page of a book, or the scroll of the credits on the small or…

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…and so I feel it’s time to cheer things up with some fun and games and a chance to have you win some free books! So, below are four book…

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…Island series. This left the adults free from parental duties as they gathered around with a glass of wine to hear Emily talk about her Cambridge-set psychological mysteries. She engaged…

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1970s Hollywood: O’Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews, is bent on unearthing secrets long ago buried by the handsome showbiz team of singer Vince…

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…door, swearing profusely at myself, with the entire contents of my A&B bag strewn across the pavement – it’s not a pretty sight. Then some joker from across the mews,…

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Check out this scribbled page which has gone viral for a dose of visual and literature juice! Cool and somewhat beautiful, n’est pas? What you’re looking at is a variety…

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The Lake District, 1908. Livia, Ella and Maggie Angel appear to lead a privileged life in a large country estate, with seemingly little to disturb their happiness, but since the…

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…public sphere, ‘it never really took off on the printed page, research showing that serif typefaces are easier for users to read in book-length stretches of text.’ It seems counter-intuitive…

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…and elegant literary illustrations. It’s always a good day when their Etsy page is updated with new literary creations; here are two of my personal favourites. Take a look at…

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…each page and various different storylines to follow (a boy loses his ballon on one page and you can follow its trajectory throughout) which essentially makes this a book you…

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…bit of a nightmare. The margins aren’t working, some recipes fit the page so neatly, others have just one line that flows on to the next page and ends up…

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I received some promotional postcards today from Plainpicture.com, and one of them looks like this: It has got me thinking about that last page in a novel: how an author…

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…would kick in and you would reel off your favourite page number (for men like Barney Ronay at The Guardian, it was usually page 302). This in the days before…

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It struck me last week that the last four books I had read had been digital editions. They were downloaded to my iPhone either through Kobo’s app, a handy PDF…

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…years. But will her son spoil it? Emil is in town to open the small museum in Saffron Lane and run his father’s business. This throws new opportunities in his…

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…bothered me about the manuscript, but then, when probed, immediately found myself questioning whether these things really would have bothered me if I’d simply chosen the book in a bookstore…

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…of A Little Murder… Little Murders (apparently one was not enough) Instead of Bitter Greens… Butter Greens (much more appetising – had me immediately craving spinach with melted Lurpak) Instead…

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…design, and yet you immediately get a much better sense of what the book is about. There’s the young protagonist and the font for the title screams baseball now. Being…

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…the festivals falls immediately after the London Book Fair. They obviously know that book readers are a very chocolate-friendly demographic. And as it happens this piece of news caught my…

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I am approaching a very special time in every girl’s life – the moment she purchases her first bookcase. My book collection has been very neatly stacked in my grandmother’s…

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