The first reviews are in for Kathleen Jamie’s new book, Sightlines – and they surpass even the enthusiasm for her previous book, Findings. Here is a selection: The Literary Review: Diana Athill “A profoundly satisfying book. It is notREAD MORE
Jasper Winn is on the road again, talking about his book, Paddle, about kayaking around Ireland in the worst summer in living memory (see below for a nice video clip of him meeting a shark).READ MORE
The Guardian has selected Kathleen Jamie as their featured author for ‘My Life in Writing’ on Easter Saturday – and The Observer will be serialising her new book, Sightlines, the following day. She will alsoREAD MORE
Peter Blegvad’s Book of Leviathan has just come out in Chinese. This is extraordinary given that Blegvad’s comic strips, originally published in the Independent, are densely packed with wordplay and puns. Yet China Times haveREAD MORE
Simon Lewis, whose thriller, Bad Traffic, has now been published in five languages, has a new thriller out in April 2012. Titled Border Run, it is the story of two gap year friends who get caught upREAD MORE
Jasper Winn has been touring his book, Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland, around the festivals. And this is the clip everyone loves: Jasper kayaking straight into a shark, which then swims under him. WatchREAD MORE
Rick Stein’s Spain concluded with a visit to Sort Of author Chris Stewart at his farm in Spain. Rick enthused about Chris’s Driving Over Lemons, his book about buying the farm, and the misadventures thatREAD MORE