Writers are All Thieves
This week the panel discuss the dark and ugly face of writing. No, not Jeffrey Archer, but plagiarism. We’re naming and shaming the cheats of the writing world and asking why would they steal? We’re...
View ArticleA Big, Sexy Package
Your book is written, re-written, checked and double checked and you’re ready to find it a home. But in this ultra-competitive publishing climate how do you ensure your novel escapes from the slush...
View ArticleKindle Porn
Finally, the Kindle may have found its market: but perhaps not quite what Amazon expected – it may just be the the new must-have accessory for pornophiles. That is, if a recent thread on FriendFeed is...
View ArticleAll The World’s Books In The Palm of Your Hand
Everyone agrees that last week’s show was one of our best ever… but we might just shatter that consensus tonight. Our sujets du jour include: Is Google’s Great Book Bank Robbery the beginning of the...
View ArticleAusterlitz
“The most amazing single book that I know.” The words of John Simopoulos, Dean of Degrees at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, talking about today’s featured book - W. G. Sebald‘s Austerlitz – rare...
View ArticleLast Time With Geoff
In our last conversation with highly-acclaimed British author Geoff Dyer, whose fourth novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is published this week, we discuss inter alia how the writer deals with...
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