• The Stapler by Anita Parmar

  04 May 2012

  The Stapler The curtains drawn, your casing still glinted reflecting bleak light, your metal edge further hinted. With light as your voice, I heard you beckon your scrape, click and clutch adv

  

• Top Christmas Reads 2011

  14 Nov 2011

  There’s nothing better on Boxing Day than opening the pages of a fresh book, lovingly given to you by someone for Christmas.

  

• Brian Stanford Talks Somerville

  10 May 2011

  Brian Stanford makes his literary debut with his novel Somerville, which blends fiction with historical fact.

  

• Top Christmas reads 2010

  11 Nov 2010

  Top Christmas reads 2010

  

• Introducing Lesley Pearse

  26 May 2010

  Lesley Pearse is one of the UK’s best loved novelists with fans across the globe and sales of over 3 million copies of her books to date.

  

• Someone has died suddenly

  11 Nov 2009

  Children and sudden bereavement

  

• Marge Simpson Playboy Cover Girl

  10 Oct 2009

  Playboy honour Marge Simpson

  

• Hilary Mantel Wins Man Booker Award

  07 Oct 2009

  Hilary Mantel Wins Man Booker Award for Wolf Hall

  

• Top Selling The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

  16 Sep 2009

  Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol has sold more copies in its first 36 hours of UK release than any other adult hardback novel

  

• Smoothest Literary Heroes

  21 Aug 2009

  Ian Fleming’s fictional secret agent James Bond is in a league of his own as far as the smoothest literary heroes of all time are concerned, while 101 Dalmations’ leading lady Cruella de Vil has been rated the coldest maiden in a new research project released today.

  

• Sophie Kinsella Q&A

  26 Jun 2009

  Sophie Kinsella series of Shopaholic novels cemented her as one of the most popular chick-lit writers and this popularity was cemented by a big screen adaptation of the first Shopaholic novel.

  

• Neil White Talks Last Rites

  18 May 2009

  Neil White may be a successful author, now on his third book Last Rites, but he is also a criminal lawyer and family man, it's amazing he finds the time for anything else.

  

• Female Book Worms Leave Men Trailing Behind

  27 Mar 2009

  New research shows that females are prolific readers and real ‘Page Turners’ while men drag behind as ‘Slow Worms’ who just can’t seem to get through a book.

  

• Comparing autobiographies of the young and old

  08 Jan 2009

  With the announcement that Leona Lewis is to write an autobiography for release later this year, it stands to question just how many years’ experience really warrant the need to be documented.