Books
A feast of literature in the Dales
Ilkley is currently hosting one of Britain’s most vibrant literary festivals, with a stellar lineup and a riveting programme focused on burning contemporary issues.
By C J Schuler | Arts | Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 10:40 pm
A Monster Calls: Carnegie winner Patrick Ness deals with the subject of death
A book about dying, death, bereavement and coming to terms with loss has won the 2012 Carnegie Medal.
By Susan Elkin | Arts, Notebook | Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 1:30 pm
Reviewing skills should be taught in English lessons
The best possible training for any sort of writing is to read as many examples of the genre written by experienced people as you can. That way you absorb the conventions and possible approaches. You won’t write, say, a decent novel, play or poem unless you’ve read plenty of novels, plays or poems. And exactly the same principle applies to theatre reviewing.
By Susan Elkin | Arts, Opinion | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 at 9:57 am
Let’s hear it for children’s non-fiction
Children’s non-fiction, or “Educational Writing”, is often seen as the poor cousin of children’s fiction (unless, of course, you’re Terry Deary) – it’s time we started paying it better attention.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook | Friday, 4 May 2012 at 12:00 am
From paralysis to prose: How I came to write a book to help you through shit times
‘One day’, I thought as I lay completely paralysed, ‘I would like to write a book that will help somebody else to get through a shit time’. When I was diagnosed with cancer and my boyfriend dumped me, I realised that day had come.
By Jessica Jones | Arts, Health | Monday, 23 April 2012 at 2:03 pm
What if every book cover was a Chip Kidd cover?
There’s a great clip doing the rounds of top US book designer Chip Kidd talking about why book jacket design is important. It’s largely made of anecdotes relating to some of his greatest hits (Naked by David Sedaris, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami) but the central point is that each book [...]
By Jonathan Gibbs | Arts | Friday, 6 April 2012 at 1:14 pm
Cut the pressure and let children enjoy reading
Thousands of children each year leave primary school with little more than basic literacy skills. Dr Cathy Taylor, principal at the Sirius Academy in Hull, spoke out last week after finding almost one in ten pupils joining her school at 11 had a reading age of five.
By Rhiannon Bury | Arts, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 30 March 2012 at 8:45 am
Rewired publishing, not self-publishing
There’s a new model for publishing and, despite what Anthony Horovitz say, it isn’t self-publishing.
By Justin Pollard | Arts | Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 12:00 am
Funding books and falling apart
The death of books has been proclaimed many times, with digital assumed to be the chief assassin. Print can’t last they say, as Kindles and e-books take a larger share of a market in apparent crisis.
By Justin Pollard | Arts | Saturday, 18 February 2012 at 2:00 pm
My top five books of 2011
Kieran Yates delves into the urban underground and picks her favourite books from this year.
By Kieran Yates | Arts | Saturday, 24 December 2011 at 3:05 pm
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