What's Big and Bad, but Actually Very Good?
It's BookXcess' Big Bad Book Sale, of course!I was invited along to the preview yesterday, but couldn't make it, so decided to go along today.

Costa Shortlists
The shortlists for the various categories of the Costa Prize have been announced, and here's the full list :Costa First Novel Award The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath John the Revelator by Pete

Borders Going Belly Up
... if even a chain operation can't compete with Amazon's economies of scale what possible hope can there be for a small independent? How long before they require charitable status to operate at all? ... Since then I've found myself wondering exactly how much of a premium I'd pay

New from Marshall Cavendish
One of the perks of having a book blog is that publishers and authors actually give you copies of books - often with quite overwhelming generosity. I am sorry to be slow about blogging recent additions to my bookshelves and plan to do better. Meanwhile, here are some new reads from Marshall Cavendish, well deser

A Hooker Unmasks, A Diva Retires, and A Poet Appropriates
Really, my apologies for not being a very good blogger over the last week or two. I'm not sure what's happened to me, but I seem to be more easily distractible than usual. (I just spent 20 minutes getting distracted by this nice blog while looking to see if I had spelt the word right!).This being the case, I offer you some quick links to stories that have caught my eye over the last week or two and hope you enjoy them :