Former MasterChef contestant’s book withdrawn after plagiarism allegations
Elizabeth Haigh is a London based chef who competed on MasterChef UK in 2011, and was the head chef at Hackney-based restaurant Pidgin when it earned a Michelin Star. Now owner of the… Read more »
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 »
New Somerset-based press caters for dyslexic adults
“Dyslexia, as I can attest to, does not go away. You don’t grow out of it.” So says Alistair Sims, founder of the newly-created BOTH Press, which has just published… Read more »
1911 NYT nugget suggests fiction-divorce connection; “rose-color books” cited
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 »
Libel litigations loses; publishers’ precarious prerogative protected
We here at John Street don’t tend to pay super-close attention to courts and laws and the like—can you spell boooooring?—but news of a recent Supreme Court decision did penetrate… Read more »
Stormzy’s #Merky imprint to publish first children’s book
“There’s nothing more gangster than being well-read.” So said UK grime superstar Stormzy, 27, in 2018 as he announced the first wave of books to be published under his newly-launched… 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 »
Golf pros call for controversial ‘green reading books’ to be red-flagged
We’re interested in books of all kinds here at Melville House, and this story from the world of golf features one of the most unusual. Green-reading books help golfers to… Read more »
Book tubers: a new range of titles that literally grow vegetables
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 »
Boris Johnson accused of missing COVID crisis meetings to write a book about Shakespeare
Back in July 2015, it was announced that Boris Johnson, the then Mayor of London, would be writing Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius for which he received an advance of close to… Read more »