Autumn is upon us, which means it is BBTVA (Big Book TV Adaptation) season!
WARNING: [extremely mild] Killing Eve spoilers ahead And so, after the longest, hottest, most waistcoat-wearingest Summer any of us can remember, Autumn is finally making itself known. Long shadows, crispy leaves, the faint… Read more »
A Champagne Super-novel? Noel Gallagher to release his first book in November
Working within the time-honoured tradition of pre-Christmas expensively produced gift-oriented music books (see also in the coming months: Amy Winehouse; Michael Jackson; Morrissey), Noel Gallagher has announced a book, as reported by Andrew Trendell in… Read more »
Someone has won a Welsh bookshop in a raffle and we’re not jealous at all
This week, Charlotte Eyre in the Bookseller reported that a man had won an entire bookshop in a promotional raffle organised over three months by retiring bookseller Paul Morris, of Bookmarks… Read more »
Study, with a chance of meatballs: Ikea is opening an in-store reading room in a London store
Ah, Ikea. Scandinavian, pleasant, clean, cheap, funky, extremely-murky-past-having Ikea. Say what you like about the place, I can’t think of many other stores I’d go if I wanted to, say,… Read more »
Smash that Smiley Face / Frowny Face button as appropriate, for it [was] World Emoji Day!
It’s always World Something Day, isn’t it? So much so that, I suspect, there isn’t a day that isn’t Something Day by now. Are there any free days left? Must we… Read more »
England’s joy-filled World Cup journey could inspire a new generation of players — and readers
The World Cup—and more specifically the crazy, sweltering, joyous four weeks of breathlessly unpredictable football that have just unfolded in Russia—may have done funny things to the English. First and foremost, it has… Read more »
A(nother) UK bookshop has appealed to Twitter for help — but is it sustainable?
It’s becoming an increasingly common sight online: a beloved indie bookstore—this week it was Imagined Things in Harrogate, Yorkshire—reports a record-low day of takings and earnestly appeals for help from Twitter. The good people… Read more »
We asked, “Is it possible to make a team of soccer players with famous writers’ surnames from this year’s World Cup?” and the answer is “Yeah, kinda!”
As you may have heard, the World Cup started yesterday in Russia. The soccer World Cup. You know, the round ball? The one that isn’t basketball, football, or baseball? The… Read more »
Marian Keyes has (justifiably) taken agin the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
More controversy has emerged from this year’s Hay Festival (which we reported on last week): during her talk, best-selling novelist Marian Keyes called out the organisers of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature.… Read more »
Don’t judge the Hay Festival by its tedious controversy-mongers
Another year at the Hay Festival, the UK’s annual “Woodstock of the mind,” another controversial lecture by a leading academic. Indeed, Germaine Greer has been at it again, this time attempting to redefine… Read more »