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To celebrate Halloween, The Guardian’s Sam Jordison visits Whitby in Yorkshire – a quiet seaside market town….and, of course, the scene of Dracula’s evil work.

Here at AbeBooks.com we have an on-going problem – the difficult task of finding new staff. We have an exceptionally high profile in Victoria, where our headquarters are located, and across Canada as a whole but we still have to work very hard to fill our vacancies. We also have a top notch HR director [...]

My favourite children’s books at the moment are Lauren Child’s Charlie and Lola books. She’s funny and lacks the moralizing tone of so many American kids’ books writers. The Daily Telegraph has an interview with her. Don’t take my word for Lauren’s way with words and pictures – my five-year-old loves Charlie and Lola.

Last week I was in Winnipeg, Manitoba visiting family. Poking through my mom’s bookshelf reminded me of how many literary greats have called Winnipeg or Manitoba home, at least for part of their lives. Carol Shields is one of my most beloved; I just reread Larry’s Party with great enjoyment this summer. Of course Margaret [...]

A nice collection of end papers.

Tis the season to be scared out of your tree. If you want to sleep poorly this weekend AbeBooks.com Avid Readers have voted on the 10 scariest characters in literature of all time. Is there anyone YOU would have put on the list instead?

Over at Fine Books they are discussing the concept of the bookstore-barbershop business combo. Not only do these bookstores have great names but business concept is second to none! You have nothing but time on your hands while getting your hair cut so why not browse some books. This gives my previous favourite joint business [...]

Heather, one of our Online Marketers at AbeBooks got to meet JK Rowling in Toronto on the final date of her North American Mini tour.

You may have noticed we had a small downtime. A small hiccup, and all seems fine now (save a few broken images here and there). The RSS feed should be working again as well. We’ll get the previous template back shortly. If you find any issues please let us know.

Straight-talking Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing sticks it to the Americans over their reaction to September 11.