Hector and Helen were reclining on the bed, the night proceeding their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They were not tired, having had an afternoon nap which was another shared habit. They ...
UK urged to start a new chapter as research shows reading boosts self-esteem
New research unveiled today shows that a quarter of UK adults (over 12 million people[1]) have only picked ...
Books on the Underground spread a touch of literary romance across the Capital, with Mills & Boon novels
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, never has there been a better time to ...
Let your inner mermaid speak
Taking an underwater view of life.
The problem with the scientific view of life is that it is simply that. A view from a particular vantage ...
Julia Donaldson has created a series of children’s playlets designed to boost reading skills
Children’s Laureate and much loved author of The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson has launched a series of short ...
Originally printed in Swedish, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became so successful that it was translated into many languages and is now an international bestseller. It recently got the rights ...
Having seen the film only yesterday I thought it only fitting to write about the book behind the film of the same name The Hobbit.
Bilbo Baggins settles for a simple ...
Harry Potter’s Wand, A Micro Pig, Breast Implants, A Bucket of Live Crabs, A Diamond encrusted iPhone, A Script for a TV Soap Opera and A Python Make the 2012 ...
Jane Eyre tells the story of a young governess from Gateshead working for a difficult employer, Mr Rochester at Thornfield Hall. Her childhood is not a happy one as she ...
The story is set in 1939 Germany and centres on a little girl of nine called Liesel, who is living with her foster family on Himmel Street and spends her ...
DESPITE computer games and mobile apps taking up more of our time than ever, it seems a good book still excites – and divides – our nation.
A survey released today ...
Often regarded as one of the greatest novels in the French language. The story is of a group of miners in North France. Étienne Lantier is unemployed and a formerly ...
I love this story as it combines my two favourite things, a ghost story and Christmas! Written by Charles Dickens, it was first released in 1873. Ebenezer Scrooge is an ...
Well it’s that time of year again! The one where we have to endure the demise of our favourite snowman in literature! The Snowman is a picture book with the ...
The cover and title of this book intrigued me enough to want to read it. It also caught my 11 year old daughter's attention so we decided rather than fight ...
C.S. Lewis, author of Chronicles of Narnia will have a memorial stone dedicated to him in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in central London.
Lewis is the man behind the works such as The ...
Rakuten’s Play.com reveals that erotic fiction currently receives 4,000% more searches than Man Booker Prize shortlist
Since Fifty Shades of Grey launched in July, it is safe to say there has ...
“The Casual Vacancy is set in a small community, which involved writing characters who are adolescents all the way up to people in their sixties. I love nineteenth century novels ...
May Day- 1st in the Murder-by-Month Series
A hip, humorous, and gripping account of small-town murder, this novel is the first in a series of comic caper mysteries featuring Mira James, ...
Forget swooning on the sofa or canoodling behind the cabinet, Mills & Boon’s The Siren, from its saucy Spice series, has topped Kindle’s erotica bestsellers’ chart this week. According to ...
Parenting website Yano.co.uk launches nationwide search for the
next ‘big’ young creative writing talent
A panel of award-winning children’s authors and writers will judge a new national creative writing competition. Children across ...
