Category: Literature

I read a piece somewhere recently (I don’t recall where exactly) which said that now is not a good time to buy books in the sales as you get good deals all year around. I tend to agree with this, as the so called bargains look suspiciously like publisher initiatives to me rather than retailers…

An awesome piece by John Le Carré in The Observer this weekend, about his father Ronnie.

Well the BBC for ages have been collating the nations favourite Big Reads, and some while ago published to top 100. This has now been further whittled down to the top 21. In the meantime, The Observer has published its list of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time. This was followed up by readers…

Thank goodness. Someone’s put together a Kurt Wallander website in English detailing the publishing order of the Wallander series of novels by Henning Mankell. Before I got to this site, I was totally confused by the publishing order, and frankly it’s not surprising. Later this month the latest English language Wallander novel is being published…

Very sad to hear that Edward Said has died. Another obituary is to be found here.

Spiders is an excellent web comic that I’ve seen referenced a couple of times in the last week.

Now that I have the blog up and running, I suddenly got in a bit of a Halo Jones mood, and decided to search for pictures. But what do you, a quick Google search throws up images from the site of Mr Ian Gibson himself. While this is to be expected, you must know that…

Well the BBC’s top 100 books have been published, and they’re a bit disappointing. Harry Potter’s there in abundance – surely it should be counted as one book like Lord of the Rings? Then there are books like Animal Farm which are evidently books people read at school for O Level or GCSE. And of…