Yesterday, Jobs handed down the Tablet from on high. That’s great. But I think that there is a certain piece of technology that already makes the iPad seem, well, a little lacklustre. Introducing BOOK! • J.D. Salinger, Dead at 91. • They say everyone has a book in them. Saying that, the simple truth is [...]

Introducing… THE BOOK! • Mysterious Poe Toaster mysteriously absent from Poe Toast. • And speaking of Poe, The Edgars might just be the world’s ugliest award. “Ugh… thanks, I guess…” • Twilight – now with pretty pictures! • Bloomsbury just can’t get their cover art right. • No one knows who owns Holmes. • Too [...]

Last month we gave one lucky reviewer a complimentary $50 gift voucher as thanks for posting their impressions up on our site. Well, now that January has rolled on by, it’s once again time to announce the winner of our latest monthly Review Competition. So let’s get into it! This month’s competition was incredibly tough [...]

One Sentence – Animated • Avatar’s narrative was by no measure groundbreaking. But despite this, it appears that there are some spooky parallels between James Cameron’s futuristic setting and that of the Strugatsky brothers in their seminal science fiction series Noon Universe… • Tolstoy gets upgraded: ‘Small US publisher Quirk Books, which had an unexpected [...]

The sad state of contemporary publishing. • “The Google Nexus-One – More human than human” • To those of you who’ve stolen a Bible, I’ve got a bit of a spoiler for you: stealing is bad! • Sherlock Holmes – “amorphous sleuth”. • I have no idea what this is – suffice to say that [...]