Melville House Books

Last year we followed the fortunes of Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford as he campaigned for a continuation of free school meals during the pandemic; launched his own reading club;… Read more »

It’s the little puzzle that could. Wordle started life last October, the simple invention of Josh Wardle, who grew up in Llanddewi Rhydderch, Wales, UK, and now works as a… Read more »

Remember “going to the movies”? No, me neither. But it seems like it’s a thing again, and following a Covid-plagued release schedule, James Bond is finally, finally back on our screens in No… Read more »

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 »

We have written in this space before about the supply chain issues that threaten all of manufacturing, merchandising, and retail—very much including books! The element of the current manufacturing landscape… Read more »

It seems serialisation could be making a come back. Widely popular in the Victoria era, writers including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Henry James often saw their novels first appear… Read more »

We confess that we don’t always play super-close attention to the “Gray Lady’s” weekly “Books in Brief” missive—so many e-mails! triage! triage! Our fancies were tickled, though, by the inclusion… Read more »

We were both startled and delighted to read in the Wall Street Journal, natch, that our nation’s long-suffering right-wing scribes have finally found people brave enough to bear the withering… Read more »

Last month we wrote about Meghan Markle’s forthcoming children’s book The Bench and how before it had even hit the shelves, it was being panned by the British tabloids. Well now… Read more »

Blimey, it seems like gardening is barely out of the news at the moment, right?! One week we’re bringing you news of vegetable king Gerald Stratford’s book deal—and now this!… Read more »