Reading Copy Book Blog

Alice Munro has graciously bowed out of the running for the Giller Award.

With the Where the Wild Things Are movie only six weeks away, everyone’s coming down with WILD THING FEVER. Woo! Catch yours!

The Dallas Morning News has an in-depth tribute to Elmer Kelton, the Western author, who died last week. Never has so many nice things been said about someone who worked in ‘agricultural journalism.’ We have 10 signed copies of The Time It Never Rained – his most acclaimed novel – for sale on the site.

Earlier today we discovered this remarkable book for sale on AbeBooks – a copy of The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote – inscribed by Truman Capote to Harry Potter. What a wonderful coincidence! Capote signed the book in January 1978 – six years before his death. Apparently Mr Potter was a doctor in New Jersey. [...]

A supermarket in the UK, Morrisons to be exact, has hired three poets to help them promote their food produce. These ‘food laureates’ – Ian McMillan, John Mole and Peter Sansom – are writing a series of poems about how to prepare different recipes. I couldn’t see Ted Hughes or W.H. Auden doing this.

We have just posted on AbeBooks our bestselling signed books of the summer. Several Frank McCourts, a couple of books with very young heroes, a real-life tale from New Orleans, and a couple of the summer’s big releases. i bet you can’t guess the most popular signed book of the past three months.

Interview with Darwyn Cooke, creator of the best graphic novel to hit the shelves in recent memory – his adaptation of Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter.

Scottish author James Kelman, who won the Booker Prize in 1994 with How Late it Was, How Late, has blasted his homeland’s literature – and that means you, JK Rowling, and you, Ian Rankin. Kelman, appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, said that if the Nobel prize for literature was awarded from Scotland, instead [...]

Take a look at the children’s books Michelle Obama likes to read with children.

Author Debbie Macomber has turned to romancing the kitchen in her new cookbook.