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Get into the Halloween spirit! Listen to the second and concluding part of Charlotte Bronte's Napoleon and The Spectre, read by actors from the company Apocalypse Ltd.
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Posted 31/10/2008 10:12:14 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 1 comments.
As a Halloween treat, we've recruited some local actors to read Charlotte Bronte's Napoleon and The Spectre, one of the chilling tales to be found in The Virago Book of Ghost Stories.
Posted 30/10/2008 11:36:58 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Do Bats Have Bollocks? by Jon Butler and Bruno Vincent goes up 17 places to No. 10 in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart!
Posted 29/10/2008 15:21:16 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
With their new book Do Bats Have Bollocks? entering the Top Ten bestsellers this week, we thought you might like to hear an extract from the audiobook edition of Jon Butler and Bruno Vincent's previous collection of 'utterly ridiculous questions' from the pages of Old Git magazine, Do Ants Have Arseholes? It's read by the Green Wing stars Tamsin Grieg, Mark Heap and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Posted 29/10/2008 15:07:38 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Candace Bushnell discussed One Fifth Avenue, Sex and the City, money, Hollywood and more on last night's Front Row on Radio 4. Listen to the programme on the BBC website.
Posted 29/10/2008 09:39:35 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
You may be interested to learn that Andrew Sachs, currently in the news regarding his complaint to the BBC, is the reader on the audio edition of Alexander McCall Smith's serial novel Corduroy Mansions.
Posted 28/10/2008 17:19:55 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Late last night I saw Reggie again, glimpsed him, rather; I was far too nervous to stare. Shocked to the core because of what happened before. I had been into town for the theatre and he was already on the bus when I changed to the number 9 at Hyde Park Corner at ten past eleven. He was in the place where he always sat, in the window seat on the right hand side, two places back from where the rear doors open. He looked very much as he always had, florid, still handsome and formally dressed with a starched white shirt and a hat balanced on his head. I glanced at him quickly then ran up the stairs, too shaken to know what on earth I could say. It has been a good few years since that night I have tried so hard to block out.
Posted 28/10/2008 17:13:19 by Carol Smith with 0 comments.
Here’s a walk that includes some of the finest buildings in the country, and one in which you’ll also learn about the origins of the terraced house – the greatest contribution these islands have made to world architecture.
Posted 27/10/2008 17:12:01 by Harry Mount with 0 comments.
“Our schools curriculum is designed by the middle classes, delivered by them, and is successful primarily for the middle classes.” Mark Johnson, author of Wasted, writes about education and the emotional health of young people in his latest article for the Guardian newspaper.
Posted 24/10/2008 14:01:39 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
We have five titles in the Hardback Fiction chart and eight in the Trade Paperback (large format) Fiction chart. Linda Grant's Booker shortlisted The Clothes on Their Backs goes up to No. 3, one place above the Trade Paperback of the eventual winner, White Tiger, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is at No. 5, and Alexander McCall Smith's The Miracle at Speedy Motors comes back into the Top 50 at No. 13, increasing sales by 400% on last week.
Posted 22/10/2008 14:37:16 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
David Allen, author of the Piatkus titles Ready For Anything and Getting Things Done, is offering Piatkus readers an exclusive 10% discount on entry to two seminars on the theme of Getting Things Done.
Posted 21/10/2008 15:57:56 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Anthony Capella, author of The Various Flavours of Coffee, has a 'character profile quiz' on his website to help you establish if you are 'a Robert, an Emily or a Pinker' -- in other words a sensualist, an idealist or an egotist, which is established with questions such as Have you ever drunk absinthe?, Do you perform better in the morning or at night?, and the like.
Posted 16/10/2008 14:05:27 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
We have six titles in the Hardback Fiction chart, including Candace Bushnell's One Fifth Avenue at No. 18, Alexander McCall Smith's The Comfort of Saturdays at No. 20 and Anita Shreve's Testimony at No. 21.
Posted 16/10/2008 09:38:05 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
If you’re left hanging this Halloween, don’t be afraid to try one of these petrifying pastimes . . .
Posted 15/10/2008 12:29:05 by The Between the Sheets team with 0 comments.
What's getting the thumbs up or the distinctly rude gesture from the Between the Sheets team this month:
Posted 15/10/2008 11:11:37 by The Between the Sheets team with 0 comments.
Mackenzie Ford on how his mother's memories of the war and his own childhood inspired his brilliant debut The Kissing Gates
Posted 15/10/2008 10:19:00 by Mackenzie Ford with 0 comments.
Will Hutton, journalist and author of The World We're In, comments on the current economic crisis in this article in the Guardian.
Posted 14/10/2008 16:42:54 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
The Scotsman have run an excellent feature on Susie Boyt and her new book My Judy Garland Life. Read it here.
Posted 13/10/2008 14:45:10 by Donna Coonan, Commissioning Editor, Virago Modern Classics with 0 comments.
A new trailer for the film version of Stephie Meyer's Twilight is now available for you to watch on MySpace:
Posted 10/10/2008 13:58:38 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 2 comments.
There's an interesting interview with Elizabeth Chadwick, covering writing and the fascinations of history, on the literary site Vulpes Libris -- click here to read it.
Posted 10/10/2008 11:12:42 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
We have a massive nine new entries into the charts this week, giving us 27 titles in total.
Posted 09/10/2008 14:19:00 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
Selwyn Parker, author of the The Great Crash, discusses the 1929 stock market collapse and how the current situation compares in an interview on MyFinance.co.uk.
Posted 09/10/2008 14:13:34 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Anita Shreve discusses her new book Testimony, and why her novels are often driven by the consequences of a single, reckless act, in an interview in Saturday's Times -- click here to read it.
Posted 06/10/2008 16:32:56 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Mark Johnson, author of Wasted, has an article called "Ex-criminals have a lot to say, now government must listen", in the Guardian newspaper -- click here to read it.
Posted 02/10/2008 14:20:24 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
We have six titles in the Hardback Fiction chart including The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks at No. 24 (and No. 4 in Hardback Science Fiction), Christopher Brookmyre's A Snowball in Hell at No. 26 and a new entry for Candace Bushnell's One Fifth Avenue at No. 27.
Posted 01/10/2008 16:26:46 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.