From Xenobe Purvis to Jeffrey Wasserstrom: new books reviewed in short
Moveable Feasts by Chris Newens What do you do when you want to write about food in one…
A summer of reading – Engelsberg ideas
Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest is History and translator of Suetonius: The Lives of the Caesars I have…
Independent UK publisher sells over 270,000 books in first three years
A UK-based printing company which created a unique model for online creators to publish books is celebrating three…
Independent UK publisher sells over 270,000 books in first three years
A UK-based printing company which created a unique model for online creators to publish books is celebrating three…
Join the Big Tasty Read at Isle of Wight libraries – a celebration of food in books
Isle of Wight libraries are inviting residents to explore the delicious link between food and literature this summer…
video game history, a bird detective, and exploring shade : NPR
One big bummer about life is that each of us seems to get only one. More than 8…
Nonfiction and Fiction Summer Reading Recommendations from Scientific American
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You might not know this, but Scientific American…
Dolly Parton to gift every Wandsworth child up to age 5 a free monthly book
Dolly Parton sitting with two children reading a book
The initiative was founded in 1995 by…
A bookstore that’s been a Halifax institution since 1987 is facing closure
An iconic Halifax bookstore may be forced to close permanently if the business is unable to raise enough…
Dragging a reluctant child on holiday? Bring these books along
A surprising number of children’s books about summer begin with reluctance to go wherever the summer is to…
Groundwater by Thomas McMullan review – a lesson in foreboding | Fiction
Thomas McMullan’s debut novel, The Last Good Man, was a darkly unsettling post-apocalyptic fable about moral puritanism and…
The Lost Elms by Mandy Haggith review – cultural history of a noble tree | Science and nature books
Just as the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 did not originate in Spain, so Dutch elm disease is…