Study, with a chance of meatballs: Ikea is opening an in-store reading room in a London store
Ah, Ikea. Scandinavian, pleasant, clean, cheap, funky, extremely-murky-past-having Ikea. Say what you like about the place, I can’t think of many other stores I’d go if I wanted to, say,… Read more »
Don Quixote gets scrambled into an e-book about the mafia after a Spanish court bans the original
An ingenious attempt at bypassing censorship in Spain has led a bookseller’s association to reconfigure passages from Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote for online consumption. For the Telegraph, James Badcock reports on the unusual case of journalist Nacho… Read more »
Open your mind, child, let me have a look, for I am The Bibliotherapist, and I know what you need… a colorful book about potty training
While there are still some doubts about whether or not reading a book automatically makes you a better person, there’s very little contention over the idea that dipping into a good… Read more »
Author of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison dies
The author Louise Rennison has died at the age of 63. Rennison was best known for her Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series written for teenagers, which included the titles Angus,… Read more »
Lady Hertford and her £7 million book wallpaper
Inveterate book collectors all have at least one story about the rare book that got away. The signed copy sold off just before the author’s untimely death sent prices soaring; the mint-condition… Read more »
Chinese translation of Indian poet draws criticism from state and scholars alike
A new edition of Nobel Prize-winner Rabindranath Tagore’s Stray Birds has drawn controversy from multiple camps, reports Neil Connor at The Telegraph. Foremost amongst the critics is—perhaps not-so-surprisingly—the Chinese government, which has pulled… Read more »
From the pen of a French beggar, a bestseller is born
Jean-Marie Roughol, a panhandler on the streets of Paris for 27 years and running, has sold upwards of 50,000 copies of his memoir, My Life as a Panhandler: A Life on… Read more »
Does Frozen count as a book?
Last week, the UK and Ireland celebrated World Book Day, an occasion that children were encouraged to celebrate by dressing as their favorite book characters. But, as Kat Brown reports… Read more »
Which writer had the greatest beard?
The Telegraph is running a slideshow of the twelve greatest author beards. While most of the beards on their list are remarkable, we were a little miffed that some of… 1 / Read more »