Inspiring Older Readers
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Penguin Designer Classics posted on 03 Jan 2016
Back in 2006 Penguin Books commissioned five leading contemporary designers to produce new covers for classic titles.
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The British Heart Foundation Books and Music Shop, Cheltenham posted on 03 Jan 2016
This smallish shop can be found in Winchcombe Street in Cheltenham, just off the main shopping drag.
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Books posted on 01 Jan 2016
I suspect that most people will only know Larry McMurtry as a novelist and screen-writer. His early novel, Horseman, Pass By,
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The Rock Pack posted on 30 Dec 2015
Pop-up books are just for kids - right? Wrong.
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Walking Away posted on 28 Dec 2015
We saw Armitage talking about and reading extracts from this book at a Ledbury Poetry festival event earlier this year...
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The Wonder Boys posted on 28 Dec 2015
This is an out-of-control, bob-sleigh ride of a book that’s a blast from beginning to end.
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The Book Cover In The Weimar Republic posted on 27 Dec 2015
This is a BIG book - both it's physical size and it's scope is pretty daunting....
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My Family and Other Animals posted on 27 Dec 2015
When I was about 15, I was given a copy of The Harrap Book of Humorous Prose ...
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Comics helped to make me the man I am ( I think that’s a good thing....?) posted on 25 Dec 2015
When I think back to the Christmases of my childhood – actually into my very early teens – comic annuals are an ever-present and indispensible feature
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The Tender Hours of Twilight posted on 24 Dec 2015
Richard Seaver is a legend in the publishing and book editing world.