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Today’s recommendation for Christmas gifts is…. The Sound of Music Companion by Laurence Maslon. Hold on a minute – don’t move on yet. This is something my mum would love. For Brits, watching movies like The Sound of Music and The Great Escape are an essential part of Christmas. They are rerun again and again [...]

On Sunday, I pulled into a gas station. After cursing about the latest five cents price hike for petrol, I walked into the store to pay. There was a teenage girl behind the counter and she was clutching a copy of A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. She was reading intently as I approached [...]

The Guardian offers some suggested reads for ex-pats feeling a little homesick on Thanksgiving.

Today’s recommendation for a Christmas gift is Helen Mirren’s Snapshots of my Life. Helen Mirren has been around for as long as I can remember and she’s surely one of the best actresses treading the boards. I watched The Queen in the summer and, frankly, it’s a great film and should be watched by anyone [...]

Today’s recommendation for a Christmas gift is Gonzo – an ideal present if you know anyone who is unhinged. Published by Ammo Books (surely the best name in publishing), Gonzo salutes the life of Hunter S Thompson – the creator of Gonzo journalist, a great writer and also, in my opinion, a very funny man. [...]

The contenders for the annual bad sex in literature award have been revealed. There’s some heavyhitters – Ian McEwan for Chesil Beach, Ali Smith for Boy Meets Girl.

A quarter of a million books have gone missing from libraries in Waltham Forest (a small town just outside of London) – book-burners are suspected.

The New York Times lists its 100 notable books of the year. It’s a big long list – the last book I finished reading (Into the Wild) was published in 1996 so I look forward to reading these books in 2017….

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all Kindles came with one free book progammed into their memory? I’d suggest this classic. I wonder what temperature a Kindle ignites?

I wonder if someone will put a used Kindle for sale on AbeBooks.com? A slightly foxed true first edition that hasn’t been price-clipped. Not a book club edition. In the meantime, who’d have thought there’d be so many books with Kindle in the title? A Kindle of Kittens by Rummer Godden – a nice children’s [...]