Book review: Book review: Regeneration by Pat Barker
Regeneration is a different type of war book to what readers or students might be used to, with the action…
How to avoid the battle of the school reader
It starts out a happy sign of a young learner’s first steps towards independent reading. The parent tucks their child…
Book lovers are not always cut out to be booksellers
Many book lovers dream of opening their own bookstore. They imagine setting up a quaint and cosy shop, dimly lit,…
It is our responsibility to read painful books
Information is everywhere, overflowing from our phones and iPads, clogging up the internet and hijacking our free time. However, amid…
New tricks are fun, but the old arts endure
From Snapbook to Tingram, streaming to gaming, augmented reality to reality tv, the way we are entertained is constantly changing…
Review: The Way to Paradise
Books can either reflect the world as the reader already knows it, but in a new and surprising way, or…
Beware of the book that is impossible to forget
Most readers will have experienced the sense of panic of picking up their holiday read, only to realise a few…
Top 5: book titles
My top 5 book titles Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGrego…
It’s hard to resist the lure of the perfect book title
Twitter demands the news of the day be condensed into 140 characters. In order to squeeze in our pithy commentary,…
Bibliotourism isn’t just for bibliophiles
We've had agritourism, gastrotourism, sports tourism and volunteer tourism, but could the next big thing in travel be bibliotourism? Just…
