Reading Copy Book Blog

Everyone has a favourite spot for reading… a chair, a couch, the bed on a Sunday morning, outside on the lawn — the list is endless. Nobody & Co. have designed the Bibliochaise, a chair shelf fusion piece of furniture. Curious.

For years Candida Hofer has taken photographs that document public spaces — often in a detached, perhaps clinical fashion. The images are usually devoid of people, and highlight patterns, repetition or a sense of order. With her images there is an archaeological sense of discovery and documentation. Libraries is a collection of her photographs documenting [...]

Once again reinforcing the idea that no press is bad press… After Venezuela’s president Hugo Cha¡vez endorsed Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance at the UN last week it shot to the top of the bestsellers list.

Lynne Truss has set up a website so people can inform on anyone using poor punctuation. I notice the website has a picture of her holding a gun although it is clearly plastic. I also see that Much Ado Books from Alfriston in East Sussex is Lynne’s favorite bookstore. They sell via Abebooks and it’s [...]

I don’t think I’m going to buy this book – Presidential Doodles. I guess ‘Presidential Shopping Lists’ could be the follow-up.

We’ve talked about it, and now Google is talking about it. As part of the 25th anniversary of Banned Book Week Google is allowing you to peek inside these contentious books.

Many decades ago, I used to drink in a pub called The Eagle and Child in Oxford. It was famous for being the hang-out of The Inklings – JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and others. I can just imagine them sipping their pints and giggling over Amanda McKintrick Ros – ‘the world’s worst novelist’. I wonder [...]

I know exactly how JK feels. If she had checked it in, they’d only have lost it

It’s time to find those unpublished manuscripts. There’s money on the table.

Some people are inspired to write by love, nature or even revenge. Other people are inspired by garbage trucks (or bin lorry if you are in the UK)