There will, unfortunately, be no book video this week. However, I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank Kelly for her kind support over the past few weeks – as well as officially welcome the lovely and talented Lisa to Swimming in The Nile. We now return you to our regular programming… • It’s [...]
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Haggard and washed up child actors. Even more haggard and washed up politicians. C-grade celebrities. Their D-grade ex-spouses. Reality stars. Sports stars who swear they didn’t know that was in their pocket until the police found it. I am of course talking about the celebrity memoir. Now when I say this I don’t mean the [...]
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Ape House Sara Gruen Year: 2010 Pages: 480 First she enchanted us with Water for Elephants, her depression era story about a struggling second rate circus and its colourful cast of characters. Now Sara Gruen is back with her fourth novel – and this time she uses a small troop of delightfully intelligent Bonobo apes [...]
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Stories that caught my eye this week for your reading pleasure! • American Presidents past and present have books coming out before the end of the year; President Obama has penned a children’s book for release November 16 while former US leader George W. Bush will publish his memoirs a week earlier. I wonder which [...]
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You know the saying “if it looks to good to be true, it probably is”? Yeah, I should have remembered that when I chose this story to include in “Link Love” a few weeks ago. The gist of the article was that six year old British boy Leo Hunter had been offered a 23 part [...]
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Ever wondered why books are the size they are? Apparently it’s all to do with… sheep. Back in the day, medieval times to be exact, books weren’t made from paper. Instead parchment was used – which is just a nicer way of saying animal skin – either goat or the more readily available sheep. Our [...]
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Some of the book news that captured my attention this week, shared here for you! • Her novel Cleo: How an Uppity Cat Helped Heal a Family made us laugh and cry and fall in love with the mischievous small black cat at its heart. Now Helen Brown’s best seller is heading to the big [...]
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He’s arguably one of the world’s richest and most well known comedians, but has US funny man Jerry Seinfeld slipped on a pseudonym and added author to his resume? Using the name Ted L. Nancy, the comedian is alleged to have written five books, starting in 1997, of “pseudo-Seinfeldian comic letters to businesses, celebrities and [...]
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They’ve made the cull; from the original thirteen, the Man Booker judging panel have today announced the six novels that have made the shortlist – and there were a few surprises. The six books in the running for this prestigious award and its 50,000 pound winner’s purse are: Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America [...]
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Dan Brown has topped another best seller list – this time for the author who’s books are most donated to British charity shop Oxfam. It’s a dubious honour and one the American author has taken out for a second year in a row according to Oxfam’s annual survey. He’s joined in the top ten by [...]
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