New Richard Osman novel set to be one of the UK’s fastest-selling books of all time
How to explain Richard Osman to an American audience? This could be, ahem, pointless… Here goes: having grown up in Essex and studied at Cambridge University, Osman, a devoted disciple… Read more »
Ex-Librarian and bookseller sentenced in decades-long theft scheme
Librarians, they’re just like us! Well, if you are someone who would steal $8 million of rare books and artifacts from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, that is. Michael Levenson… Read more »
Studies find that people are finding more time to read and their brains basically can’t process books anymore
Ahh, the age-old conundrum. According to the Guardian, a survey of 1,000 people in the UK claim that their reading time has nearly doubled, that is from 3.5 hours a… Read more »
Ebook piracy is bad for everyone
Stealing is, for the most part, bad. That’s pretty much a universal value we all learn when we’re very young. But thanks to the Internet’s ability to provide us with… Read more »
Thief jailed for stealing over £80,000 worth of library books
Imagine being a PhD student at Napier University in Scotland, casually frequenting your campus library to borrow a textbook for your studies. But the shelf is empty—not one of the… Read more »
Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the publishing world
Perhaps the only thing that we here at MobyLives have in common with Jeffrey Epstein is that the man was once a blogger like us. Over at The Chronicle of… Read more »
New scheme to encourage female BAME and working-class crime writers supported by J.K. Rowling
Back in 2016 we wrote about a new women’s crime festival launching in London. Organised by Killer Women, a collective of 20 female crime writers, they put on crime fiction… Read more »
Book piracy is a real problem—and it could affect you
Harry Potter without The Deathly Hallows. Game of Thrones without A Dream of Spring. The Trainspotting saga without (shameless plug) Dead Men’s Trousers. What if your favorite series was cancelled before… Read more »
World’s most endearing woman returns library book 73 years later
A family of literature lovers committed a library crime—but they were met with an unexpected response. Upon returning a book that was almost 27,000 days overdue, Mora Gregg received interview requests… Read more »
Copenhagen isn’t the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of mean streets and turf wars. Turns out the Danish capital is rife with gangs like the Black Cobras,… Read more »