Mark Charan Newton

Yep, it’s that time of year again, usually before the Christmas period, where people begin to cry out and lament the end of publishing as we know it.
The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing musical chairs, and Amazon looming [...]

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I don’t think there’s many who do melancholy or nostalgia better. He really is the M. John Harrison of the music world.
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I’ve started reading Latro in the Mist, a omnibus of Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete, by SF and Fantasy legend, Gene Wolfe. What a superb concept, about a Roman mercenary who gets a head injury that deprives him of short term memory. He can see gods and goddesses who roam the landscape, [...]

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A friend of mine asked me today about the death of the book as a result of the Amazon Kindle. I emailed him some concise reasons why this just SO wasn’t the case:
1 ) People who read a lot of books, love books, the physical thing. Period. They are unlikely to stop buying books because [...]

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A little evenin’ beat. (*Shrugs.) It’s just cool, all right?
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Savernake Forest, just outside of Marlborough. November. The colour becomes intense, the light always more hazy because of the height of the sun. What a combination.
Wind runs through channels here, along the straight paths, gathering momentum, and it dominates your stride. Surprisingly, there is next to no one around; you would have thought better of [...]

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Buy an Ent leaf.
Tolkien fans everywhere will soon be able to buy into a legend by subscribing to the public appeal to finance a sculpture celebrating the internationally acclaimed author and his Birmingham roots. From October 1st, courtesy of eBay, fans can bid for a metal leaf with a personalised dedication and associate themselves with [...]

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Is it wrong to be into such geekery as this as reported here? And there’s this too. I mean, I was just as bad when the iPhone came out. Is it wrong to watch the keynote speech twice? Anyone who just uses PCs may as well look away. Ever since I turned to worship at [...]

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