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Open thread: share your favourite Douglas Adams lines on Towel Day

Whats your favourite line from The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy? Celebrate Towel Day 2012 here"A towel ... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." A...

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Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished?

Hesperus Press are asking the public to nominate a novel for republication, with the winners pitch used as an introduction. Post your suggestions belowHesperus Press is a small independent publisher,...

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The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version

A fair few genre novels, no non-fiction at all, and the mysterious disappearance of the previous No 4 make the new Penguin library a radical updateThe literary canon, supposedly, is a monolithic enti...

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Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading

The books were reviewing this week, what you are reading and roundup of the best comments on the books siteHello all. Heres a roundup of some of the comments on last weeks blog.kiwirebecca:Im just up...

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Gay superheroes: Holy cow! Why is everyone in a hurry to out Batman?

As comic book rivals go to battle over gay superhero plots, its Batmans sexual orientation that has tabloids in a spinGay is apparently the new black for comics superheroes as rival publishers Marvel...

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Keep Public Lending Rights excellent office in Stockton-on-Tees

Anne Fine, Ian Rankin, Monica Ali and Andrew Motion join campaign to save exemplary and hard-working staff in an area where unemployment has topped 11.5 percent. Allan Glen checks their progressAutho...

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Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels

A young financier taking a drunken tumble might have been an easy target, but this gentle poem has no interest in blame gamesThis weeks poem, City Boy, is by Peter Daniels and appears in his recently...

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Orange is not the only fruit: why book prizes, not sponsors, matter to writers

Oranges decision to withdraw its sponsorship of the womens prize for fiction is not the end of the world. What matters is not what the prize is called, but what it representsWaiting with the five oth...

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Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review?

Academics have charted reviews on social media sites and broadsheet books desks, and ranked their impact on novel sales. The results make for interesting readingLast weeks paper from the Harvard Busi...

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Little Edale punches above its weight in the worlds of music and books

Singing, writing and all those walkers marching off up Grindsbrook Clough. Maybe the hamlet will produce a ballet next. Or a mural. Or an epic filmSmall but beautiful Edale in the Peak District is ma...

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Guardian first book award 2012: hunt for the 10th title

Do you know of a brilliant literary debut? As the deadline looms for entries to this years first book award, were launching the search for the 10th title for the longlistTheres just a week left for p...

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Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon

Waterstones promise to make ebooks dramatically better by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already its the end of the world. Instead of...

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Reader reviews roundup

An elegant review of Sarah Halls The Beautiful Indifference, and differing opinions on a Hebridean murder mystery and Jack Kerouacs On the RoadFirst up this week, ElizabethBaines really elegant and c...

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Wanted: your flash critique

Earlier this week we celebrated National Flash Fiction day by asking for our readers flash novels. Now were looking for your flash criticismFor those who were too deeply engrossed in an old-fashioned...

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Poster poems: May

Traditionally a season of poles and ribbons, May can be merry and romantic, or the month when love that smiled in April turns false. We invite you, garlanded or otherwise, to post your poemsWell, her...

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Dickens, Browning and Lear: whats in a reputation?

The bicentenaries of three great Victorian writers underline the capricious nature of literary afterlivesWhat are the qualities that make a writer endure and flourish? Its an intriguing question whos...

17 maj 12

Reading Group webchat: Paul Hendrickson

The author of Hemingways Boat, will be online Friday 18 May from 1pm. Post now for a chance to grill him on this months Reading Group idea of Ernest Hemingway as a macho writerOn Friday 18 May at 1pm...

16 maj 12

Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading

Stieg Larssons Expo Files and the novels Gone Girl and HHhH are among the books were reviewing this week. What you are reading, today?Last weeks thread included excited talk about Bring Up the Bodies...

15 maj 12

Have we fallen out of love with John Updike?

Three years after John Updikes death, his reputation appears to be on the wane. But who else can match his deftness and grace?Happy news from across the water. 117 Philadelphia Ave, Shillington, chil...

15 maj 12

Happy Birthday, A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgesss diabolical tale of juvenile ultraviolence is 50. Five decades on, the novel holds a lofty position as one of pop cultures most influential and enduring pieces of literatureFifty year...

14 maj 12

Why are writers no longer influenced by the classics?

Modern authors are far more stylistically influenced by their contemporaries than by writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literatureHarold Bloom famo...

14 maj 12

Reader reviews roundup

Opinions is divided, but this week Can Themba and Charles Dickens join Suzanne Collins on the ever-growing to-read pileOpinionsLtd is in two minds about Penguins collected Can Themba, Requiem for Sop...

11 maj 12

Why Norwich should wear its Unesco literary badge with pride

My home town has just joined the ranks of Edinburgh, Iowa City, Reykjavik, Dublin and Melbourne as a Unesco city of literature. So why Norwich?Thursdays announcement that Norwich has been named a Une...

11 maj 12

Whos helping who in the cover blurb game?

Few books now appear without enthusiastic recommendations from other authors, but does anyone really believe them?How many books can one man recommend? I sometimes feel that my name is on the cover o...

11 maj 12

Rediscovering Elizabeth Taylor – the brilliant novelist

Few have heard of the National Velvet stars namesake, but she was one of the best English novelists of the 20th century"No one bought her books, and only the middle aged or elderly had ever read ...

11 maj 12

Locating the books with the strongest sense of place

The Ondaatje prize shortlist includes novels from Rahul Bhattacharya and Teju Cole, but which are your favourite books which evoke the spirit of a place?The shortlist for perhaps my favourite of the ...

10 maj 12

The Marlowe Papers: playing poetically with the playwrights murder

Literary dialogue comes in many forms – webs of allusion, reference and literary homage. And Ros Barbers new novel The Marlowe Papers takes this conversation to another levelOne of the secret pleasur...

10 maj 12

Can a fictional character take you over?

A new US study suggests readers may change their behaviour to emulate a fictional character – so whos gotten under your skin?Good lord above! If this is really true then I dread to think what havoc i...

09 maj 12

Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list

Tell us what you would like to see covered on the site, the books you are reading and comment on the titles well be reviewing this weekHeres a roundup of some of the highlights from last weeks thread...

08 maj 12

Out in paperback: May fiction

Some prize picks appear this month, including Madeline Millers intricate The Song of Achilles, Georgina Hardings Painter of Silence and Erin Morgensterns enchanting The Night CircusTwo Orange prize-s...

08 maj 12

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