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Ernest Hemingway led a remarkable life that saw him win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and also the Nobel Prize for Literature. But he was also a man of action who reported from the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and drove a Red Cross ambulance in Italy during World War I where he [...]

Do you know the Weird Book Room? We’ve just updated with six new finds, including our featured weird book this time around, “Ragnar’s Guide to Home and Recreational Use of High Explosives”.

I was wondering why huge salaries and fancy cars have always eluded me during my career. It turns out that no-one wants to pay big bucks to someone who looks like a pig in knickers. Don’t read this Huffington Post interview if you are ugly.

Here’s another book for my to-read list and I’m going to blog about it so I don’t forget. I like the look of Among the Fans by Patrick Collins – reviewed in The Guardian by sportswriter Richard Williams. It’s a book about watching sports fans as they are watching (or not watching) sport. Fans of [...]

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The Publishers Weekly blog asks which graveyard is the most literary, and doesn’t even mention Highgate Cemetery in London. Highgate’s East Cemetery contains: Douglas Adams, novelist Lucy Lane Clifford, novelist George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans), novelist, Karl Marx, economist Dachine Rainer, poet Highgate’s West Cemetery contains Beryl Bainbridge, novelist Lots of the Charles Dickens [...]

60-year-old bookseller, former lawyer and definite character Charles Mysak has been selling books out of his car in the same parking spot for 11 years.

I said: “Heike, you’ve got to do another video book review for us.” She said: “OK, can I do a yoga book?” I replied: “Sure, just don’t make it boring.” Here is a video review of B.K.S Iyengar’s Yoga the Path to Holistic Health and it’s definitely not a boring review. I love this video.

Enjoy a video tour of the bookshelf of one of our staff.

Moby Lives pointed me towards this neat blog post this morning which has compiled census data on librarians from the past 120 years. It looks at how librarians are less plentiful but better paid, increasingly married, and older than they used to be and almost always female.