Why Kafka is not Kafkaesque
Paul Johnston's readable ebook, Why Kafka is not Kafkaesque, offers an interesting and fun introduction to the mysterious world of Franz Kafka. (more…)
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The First Men In The Moon
H G Wells 'The First Men In The Moon': The Story Of The 1919 Film By Robert Godwin In 1919 the Gaumont Motion Picture Studio created the first movie to ever be based entirely on a famous science fiction novel. (more…)
Flood’s Mousey Mousey popular
[caption id="attachment_320" align="aligncenter" width="531"] Heather Flood[/caption] Children's author Heather Flood's heroine Mousey Mousey has been hailed by fellow authors, children and parents as the cutest mouse ever - topping Walt Disney's Mickey and Minnie and the little mouse in The Gruffalo! (more…)
Midnight Alley by Miles Corwin
[caption id="attachment_288" align="aligncenter" width="531"] Midnight Alley by Miles Corwin[/caption] Booklist, Starred Review, February, 2012 "Recommend this superb novel to fans of crime thrillers and police procedurals..." Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. (more…)
The Impossible Museum
On 1 October Prestel publishes The Impossible Museum: The Best Art You'll Never See by Celine Delavaux. (more…)
Clarus Press Publishes Neighbours and the Law
[caption id="attachment_266" align="aligncenter" width="531"] Neighbours and the Law[/caption] Clarus Press has launched the first publication in Ireland to deal specifically with the range of legal issues that arises between neighbours. The newly published law book entitled "Neighbours and the Law" provides an up-to-date analysis of neighbourhood law guiding the reader through the many intricacies and pitfalls. (more…)
Catch Up With Dickens
[caption id="attachment_249" align="aligncenter" width="531"] Lucinda Dickens Hawksley[/caption] The great great great grand-daughter of Charles Dickens, author Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, is to give a talk about the man behind the classic novels at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen this November. (more…)
Ray Bradbury remembered
[caption id="attachment_227" align="aligncenter" width="531" caption="Ray Bradbury, August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012"][/caption] With the death of Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) , it would be great to share a letter he sent to the Fayetteville Public Library in 2006. (more…)
HarperCollins aquires rights to Bacharach story
[caption id="attachment_181" align="aligncenter" width="531" caption="Burt Bacharach"][/caption] HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Burt Bacharach's life story, ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART. Written with Robert Greenfield and told in Bacharach's own words, the book will recount the life and times of a true American icon who has composed many of the most important popular songs of the last century. The deal was negotiated by Jonathan Burnham, Senior VP, Publisher, Harper
Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America
[caption id="attachment_80" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Schools for Misrule"][/caption] From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next. The trouble is our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for America. From class action