Lockdown home cleaning sends book sales soaring
Are you struggling to get out of your coffee stained pyjamas every day? Is your washing up pile ever growing, the hoover languishing in the cupboard, empty wine bottles collecting… Read more »
Remember when you all got mad about books being shelved page-side-out? Well…bad news…
Last May, an interior design tip to display books so their pages faced the room made it onto twitter.com and incited a day or two of genial outrage. This followed… Read more »
Order, order! Publishers set to clean up in the wake of tidying craze
Ah, January. The holidays are over, and the only thing that remains are those weird chocolate liqueurs no-one wants to eat, and a nagging sense of regret: should I really have eaten… Read more »
Men, maybe it’s time to man up and accept some help from yourselves
Man up! There’s no crying in publishing! Do you think Jonathan Franzen would pick up a “self-help” book? Nooooo! Would Ernest Hemingway read Who Moved My Cheese? Absolutely not. Would Norman… Read more »
Seattle tops best-read-cities list
On May 24, 2016 citizens of the great American cities gathered in their town squares, anxiously awaiting the results of this year’s Amazon.com Most Well-Read Cities in America rankings. And, for the second year… Read more »
The life-changing magic of organizing your book collection
Marie Kondo, the Japanese decluttering expert, has been sweeping the globe with her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Her secret? Hold each item you own and determine if… Read more »