The 24-Hour Book

Putting paid to notions that it takes years to write a book (damn! There goes my excuse) is the 24 Hour Book Project, a groundbreaking new initiative that’s challenging a bunch of writers, editors and publishers to take a book from pie-in-the-sky concept to published material in JUST ONE DAY. The brainchild of the folks [...]

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Short bread: The Sunday Times’ big bucks award

On the day Dan Brown’s new novel dominates the books blogs – and the financial concerns of booksellers the world over – you wouldn’t blame the humble short story writer for having spent the past 10 hours with their head hung over a frequently refilled brandy glass, bemoaning their supposed drawing of the literary short [...]

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Stephen Fry reveals his Wilde side

Britain’s best-loved bookish eccentric, techy Twitterer and fantasy uncle (imagine the Christmas party games!) Stephen Fry has long worn his Oscar Wilde-loving heart on his sleeve. Brian Gilbert’s 1997 film Wilde saw Fry cast as the exuberant author, and recently he noted the formative influence of Wilde’s work in his navigating that pot-hole riddled road between [...]

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(Re)Discovery of the Week: Cadaverine Magazine

It slipped off the radar when I slithered down to the south of England, but due to a rather timely Facebook group invitation (at the very minute The Bind gets its socks pulled back up after a rather too long hiatus…) it’s back: the brightest beacon of young British writing this side of a printing [...]

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Discovery of the Week: Untitled Books

Just when it seemed that folks with an appetite for a good yarn were doomed to wonder the World Wide Web with nothing juicier than the amateur book reviews of romance novel aficionados to wrap our slobbery chops around, I am pointed in the direction of Untitled Books (thanks, TJ) – online bookshop, literary magazine [...]

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Journey of Kerouac discovery continues

    The manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s first work, the unpublished The Sea is My Brother, has been acquired by Harpers in the US and is set to be published in its entirety for the first time. The 158-page handwritten manuscript of The Sea is My Brother was penned by Kerouac during his time as [...]

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