…ailments and sorted with the Book Doctors, a literary pub quiz, a treasure hunt… All areas covered by the sounds of things. Lesley-Anne Crooks, Sales & Digital Manager Recommend This:…

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…was immediately intrigued. Spine poetry, it turns out, is a way of arranging the books on a shelf so their spines create some sort of mood or feeling, much as…

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…and compelling new evidence. I remember reading the Charles Cross biography of Kurt Cobain in 2002 so I was immediately intrigued. And whether you believe them or not, I think…

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…among the black and white is quite striking – although I don’t know how I feel about the cityscape. Which version do you prefer? Sophie Robinson, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…cover design for the book. I think the 1970s was a weirder decade than we think… Next week: the 1980s – books get global! Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…Audrey Hepburn fan – that I immediately wanted to pick it up and take it home. Wouldn’t it look lovely on your coffee table? Desperately wanting this pretty book got…

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…The Mortmains’ castle: Another castle – perhaps I secretly want to live in one. Exploring the home of Cassandra Mortmain from I Capture the Castle would be fun – I’d…

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…not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass. – Ezra Pound Sophie, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…breakfast cereal). Last night I was one of about 90 lucky people who got free tickets to watch a recording of a new comedy panel show that will be gracing…

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…calling it The Allison & Busby Easter Book Hunt – click here to enter. (yes, don’t worry, there are free books in it for you…) Happy Easter everyone! See you…

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…exposé on Apple next? – I could use a free iphone) To add to the spat, in the programme O’Leary is filmed refusing an interview on the grounds that the…

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1941, London. Sirens warn of danger as German bomber planes approach the city. Ever cautious, Kathy and her mother head immediately for the nearest public air raid shelter but are…

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…old comrade and former batman, 352 Jenkins, holidaying with them after the marriage of his two step-daughters in South Africa. Fonthill immediately cables his old boss Kitchener, the newly appointed…

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…shop: an ornate Victorian writing desk of mahogany and mother-of-pearl, containing a dozen drawers – one curiously and impossibly locked – overflowing with epistolary paraphernalia. And, once the scene was…

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‘I AM TOLD HE IS SUCH A GIANT, THIS BOHEMUND, THAT HE CAN PICK UP AND CONSUME A MAN WHOLE’ 1096. The Pope has called for a crusade to free…

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…joint endeavour). Click on the review image above to open up the full pdf of the review and then submit your translation by entering the competition here. Of course, I’m…

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Visit the new Ethan Gage Website     The third book in this pacy historical adventure series – thrills, spills and puzzles galore!   Ethan Gage wants to enjoy the…

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…A quick search on Amazon wasn’t helpful. I did find Serengeti, The Eternal Beginning, by Boyd Norton – a hardback photography book which looks gorgeous, has immediately got me even…

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…see her off on Saturday – the final day of her UK tour. The day was split as follows: morning – signing at Watertone’s Bluewater; mid-morning – having a nice…

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1805.  An engagement party is taking place for Mr Richard Montague, son of wealthy landowner Sir Edgar Montague, and his fiancée Catherine. During a dance with his beloved, a strange…

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…sounded like a perfect holiday read, in a Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand kind of vein. I downloaded the sampler on my Kindle and was immediately hooked with the opening page….

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