It's NatNoWriMo time...

I wasn't surprised to hear Julian Barnes won the Booker for The Sense of an Ending. My head knew...

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Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan is the fifth of the Booker Shortlist that I've read, and unfortunately turned...

Sights, sounds, smells – description just pours off the page and a lot happens very quickly, and it's fair...

I read this novel on a beach, and it's a credit to the author's descriptive powers that it did...

This is a short book and I read it pretty much in one go, which was perhaps a mistake...

In October's Vanity Fair 'A. Scott Berg recounts the discovery of a literary treasure trove: a cache of...

A present froma good friend of mine who is also a new-ish mum. I've never read anything by Maggie...

Lovely ABC3D, by Marian...

I might not be a fan of the Millennium trilogy, but that doesn't stop me being interested in Steig...

To continue my rambling list of comments on the World Book Night Top 100 Books (a bit of a...

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World Book Night are compiling a list of the top 100 books. I'm always a sucker for a list....

New Five Dials, an online magazine from Hamish Hamilton that I like very much, is out. Download it for...

It's not book related, but if my posts are a little sporadic (or more so than usual) from today...

Every three months, I get a package from Germany that I'm always excited to open because I know the...

Fun game going on over at Londonist today. An official White House photograph (turns out there's a flickr stream...

I've posted enthusiastically about Julie Orringer before (How to Breathe Underwater). I was keen to read something else by...

Loving these book hats from Ukranian fashion designer Andre...

I love this. But also it scares me. (via...

I confess, I love my various e-gadgets. But this made me...

Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani writer who has received much critical acclaim here in the UK, but what did...

The Guardian have revamped their books site: news, reviews, features, videos, reader responses – almost too much to take...