2nd September 2010
KITCHEN, NIGELLA LAWSON'S FABULOUS NEW COOKERY BOOK IS PUBLISHED TODAY
Expansive, practical, delicious - the cookery book of the year offers feel-good food for cooks and eaters, with a wealth of photographs from the instructive to the glorious. Visit nigella.com for more inspiration.
1st September 2010
Your chance to win two tickets to the premiere of Tamara Drewe
Stephen Frears film adaptation of Posy Simmons graphic novel stars Gemma Arterton and is due for release on September 10th. For a chance to win two premiere tickets visit the Foyles website and sign up to the Foyles newsletter, but hurry the competition closes Friday 3rd September. Visit the film website here.
1st September 2010
The Good Dr Johnson Reflects On The Internet
Visit the Vintage blog today to read a rare guest post by none other than Dr Samuel Johnson, one-time eighteenth-century man of letters, now best known as the acerbic wit and darling of the Twittering world. If you aren't following him on twitter click here then find out more about his new book Dr Johnson'sDictionary of Modern Life – a wickedly funny look at all things modern, published tomorrow.
26th August 2010
It's nearly carnival time!
Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. Every year the streets of West London come alive, with the sounds and smells of Europe's biggest street festival. On our international writing blog today, guest blogger Diana Evans writes about her new book, The Wonder, which is partly set at the carnival, and on our international writing site we have the Lutyens and Rubinstein bookshop's favourite international fiction.
25th August 2010
Calling all fans of Bob Dylan! We're delighted to tell you that we're publishing Sean Wilentz' groundbreaking Bob Dylan in America next week. The book is the first to fully place Dylan in the context of American culture in the 20th century and is based on exclusive access to recording session tapes (notably the Blonde on Blonde sessions), rare photographs, as well as previously unused manuscripts. Visit our blog to read two fascinating pieces by Sean on Dylan's cultural influences.
24th August 2010
A new crime star
If you like your crime chilly, eerie and full of suspense look no further than our new young star of scandi-crime, Jan Costin Wagner. His new novel Silence, hailed as 'a genuinely gripping crime thriller with a psychological twist” (Aesthetica) has just been published by Harvill Secker. To be in with a chance of winning a free copy, please visit our Facebook site.
24th August 2010
The return of maths homework
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s only a week left of the summer holidays. However, here at Square Peg we have the perfect book to make the return of school - and especially your child's maths homework simpler – Maths for Mums and Dads by Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew. This book is an entertaining, straightforward and pain-free book on basic maths for grown-ups – you can now say goodbye to tense and frustrating homework sessions with your children! And don’t just take our word for it - click here to see real parents’ 5* reviews on Amazon.
23rd August 2010
A S Byatt wins the James Tait Black Fiction Prize for her acclaimed novel The Children's Book
The winners were announced by best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Friday at 7pm. To watch a video report on the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes ceremony click here.
To find out more about The Children's Book click here
19th August 2010
Soon the first snow will come...and then he will appear again...
...And when the snow has gone...he will have taken someone else.
Today marks the publication of Jo Nesbo's The Snowman in Vintage paperback, hailed by the Independent as 'the next Stieg Larsson'. This thrilling novel sees Inspector Harry Hole investigating the disappearances of two young women - and discovering himself in a deadly game. For the first time in his career he finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity. Visit the Jo Nesbo website to find out more about the Harry Hole thrillers and to watch a video with Jo speaking about The Snowman.
13th August 2010
Elementary, my dear readers...
The fantastic BBC series Sherlock has dominated the news and reviews these last two weeks for it's modern take on Conan Doyles' masterpieces. Our book The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a volume of Sherlock Holmes’s most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from the streets of London and the English countryside to a chilling encounter at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. If you missed Sherlock on the BBC, click here to watch the first episode.
12th August 2010
Watch Tom McCarthy talk about his Booker-longlisted novel, C
C
follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who is born into and fascinated by the electric modernity of the early twentieth century. In short, a man transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Tom McCarthy’s latest novel has just made the Booker longlist and was published just last week - you can watch an exclusive video of Tom reading from and talking about the fantastic C here....
