Explosive sales of adult coloring books lead to explosive sales of adult coloring pencils
Adult coloring books—or “colouring-in books,” as they’re sometimes called in the United Kingdom, because apparently the more straightforward terminology might have led to confusion about how one should actually color… Read more »
Authors host night at Waterstones Piccadilly to save William Blake’s cottage
When William Blake’s cottage hit the market in July 2013, a handful of writers began to imagine the space as “a house of refuge for persecuted writers.” Rather than a… Read more »
The Folio Society determines that the Bible is the most valuable book to humanity
The Folio Society is an accomplished publisher. Their books are very pretty, and they would make fine additions to any fire-lit study or drawing room. I hear they have lovely… Read more »
“Little lamb, who crowd-funded thee?” The ongoing saga of William Blake’s cottage
We mentioned last year that William Blake’s Sussex cottage was for sale for the first time since 1928. This week there’s a crowd-funding campaign in the works to raise the £520,000… Read more »
Russell Brand to write “Trickster Tales,” wants to change “the way children see the world”
Russell Brand is already a bestselling author, of memoirs Booky Wook and Booky Wook 2. (In fact, the last time we checked in on him, those books were being banned from… Read more »
Russell Brand’s Booky Wook 2: Too Crude for Guantanamo?
Writing in The New Statesman, Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British detainee at Guantanamo Bay, lifts the lid on what American authorities deem unfit for reading at the controversial (and perpetually… Read more »