Pelican Books — is reclaiming covers in ebooks
When covers are good, they’re good, but more often that not they tend to drive me nuts these days. I’m having a blast posting…
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Franchise Fiction
So, this is an article about franchise fiction, namely author Sophie Hannah who has been given permission to resurrect Hercule Poirot for the first…
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Neil Gaiman’s version of Hansel & Gretel to be made into a movie
Oh my, first, Neil Gaiman has written his version of Hansel and Gretel, with art by Lorenzo Mattotti — from the picture above, you…
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Gillian Anderson, author
I think all my birthdays have come at once: Gillian Anderson has co-authored a book called A Vision of Fire. It’s out NOW…
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The Sleeper and The Spindle by Neil Gaiman to be released as a book
The Sleeper and the Spindle is Neil Gaiman’s spin on Sleeping Beauty, first published as part of Rags and Bones: New Twists on…
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Summer Battle Stars: Excerpt from TekWar by William Shatner
William Shatner has written so much — within the Star Trek universe and in a universe of his own creation within his…
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Sydney Writers’ Festival 2014: My day
Any writers’ festival is a chance for a bunch of book nerds to come together to embrace their love of all things bookish with…
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JRR Tolkien lost audio and poem found
This recording as made when Tolkien attended a party on 28 March 1958 in Rotterdam, organised by his Dutch publisher and a bookseller. It…
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Cell phone novels
I’m sure you’ve heard it before – that Twitter is ruining … well everything about language and our attention spans; the demise of the…
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BookCon and Controversy
I don’t know about you, but my year is more often than not signposted by the cons we have in Australia – which…
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