Google Play has launched a dedicated audiobook store to take advantage of the recent growth in downloads.
Tina Brown talks to Refinery 29 about bad men, powerful women, and her book, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992.
New pledge levels and rewards have been added for pre-orders of Unscripted.
Not shockingly, it turns out that spoof books aren’t enough to buoy a bookshop. Gizmodo UK is thankful the trend is collapsing.
Blackwell’s, the UK’s largest academic and specialist book retailer, has introduced a raft of new technologies to help improve customer service and reduce queuing times in stores and to improve customer experience
Was the beloved poet Robert Burns a ‘Weinsteinian sex pest’? Or is the Guardian engaging in some low-level clickbait?
Imogen Hermes Gowar spoke to the Telegraph about mermaids, mummies and writing this year’s must-read historical novel.
The Oxford Student asks: does every book need a happy ending?
The Times reports on one Chinese bookshop which specialises on “blind dates with a book”.
‘You could say I’m reluctantly retired from writing books’: travel writer Dervla Murphy, author of Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, speaks to the Guardian.
Without a formal education, Barbara Comyns produced Gothic masterworks. Lit Hub has a piece on the outsider artist.
In the wake of her passing, the Guardian looks at Ursula K Le Guin’s legacy.
The Guardian rounds up top ten books about the body.
From feminist novels to explorations of humanity: Stylist has a list of 8 books about robots.
