March 08, 2016 » MobyLives! Archives

Well, it was fun(?) while it lasted. Israel’s controversial “Law for the Protection of Literature and Authors in Israel” (aka “Book Law”) which barred booksellers from discounting frontlist titles for 18… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

Why fiction: Michael M. Thomas on Fixers

Michael M. Thomas

In 2009, my novel Love & Money was chosen by a friend as a “party favor” at a conference for Wall Streeters and other big hitters that he hosts every… Read more »

Amazon’s second brick-and-mortar to open in San Diego

Simon Reichley

After a month of speculation surrounding a series of job openings posted by Amazon in February, Jennifer Van Grove at the San Diego Union Tribune reports that new signage in… Read more »

Paperback release: Cat Out of Hell by Lynne Truss

Taylor Sperry

Lynne Truss’s novel Cat Out of Hell is now available in paperback. Alec Charlesworth is a retired librarian whose beloved wife has just died. Bereft, he takes a lonely holiday, where he becomes… Read more »

Melville House Books

March 8, 2016

Culture minister for Israel’s majority party denounces book-pricing law

Liam O’Brien