The wonderful Michael Morpurgo, appearing at the recent Nielsen Bestseller Awards Ceremony, said of bestseller status: "I'm not sure a million copies sold is...

Some grammatical and linguistic errors that drive us mad ‘The exception that proves the rule' Wouldn't it be handy if this expression really meant what most ...

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni Morrison “If you don't have time to read, you don't h...

One of New Zealand’s best and most illustrious book editors, Stephen Stratford (“I am a polite person, mostly”), vents about having to deal with writers and ...

.It’s inexplicable to me that Will Self still hasn’t been fully rumbled. If the dreary, ponderous, unamusing indiscipline of his shaggy-dog story novels isn'...

CrimeFest, the festival of crime writing which is held in Bristol each year and the newly launched Staunch Prize for crime fiction find themselves at the cen...