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Still Alice
Posted On: March 15, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Lisa Genova discusses her New York Times Bestseller Still Alice.
Read More...Watch the trailer for No and Me, by Delphine de Vigan
Posted On: March 9, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Watch a trailer for Delphine de Vigan’s bestselling novel, No and Me, newly translated from the French by George Miller.
Read More...Win a copy of And This is True, Emily Mackie’s debut novel
Posted On: March 5, 2010Posted In: Competitions, Video
Publisher: Sceptre
Find our more about Emily Mackie’s debut novel, watch a trailer and try and win a copy too.
Read More...Three questions for… Simon Winder
Posted On: March 2, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Picador
George Miller asks author and publisher Simon Winder about his new book, Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern. As ever, there are no trick questions, but no forewarning either. Watch the video to find out what Simon thinks are the highs and lows of German cooking.
Read More...Nice to See It… The 1970s in Front of the Telly
Posted On: February 26, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Here are a selection of television clips, which for Brian Viner, author of Nice To See It, To See It, Nice symbolise the 1970s.
Read More...Watch the trailer for Willy Vlautin’s Lean On Pete
Posted On: February 24, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Faber
From the acclaimed author ofThe Motel Life and Northline and frontman for the band Richmond Fontaine, comes a hugely moving slice of Americana.
Read More...Ben Wilson and Andy Beckett discuss liberty in the 1970s
Posted On: February 22, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
Historian Ben Wilson, author of What Price Liberty? discusses civil liberties in the 1970s with journalist Andy Beckett, author of When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 70s.
Read More...The Children’s Invasion Book
Posted On: February 18, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Faber
In this second short film featuring Faber archivist Robert Brown, he introduces us to another of Faber’s wartime publications – The Children’s Invasion Book. Published in 1944, this book wasn’t a guide to help British children prepare for the possibility of a German invasion of the UK, but a display of the Allied military hardware which was about to be unleashed on D-Day…
Read More...Win a copy of The Boy Next Door [closed]
Posted On: February 12, 2010Posted In: Competitions, Video
Publisher: Sceptre
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Find our more about Irene Sabatini’s tale of growing up and falling love amidst the chaos of post-colonial Zimbabwe, watch a trailer and try and win a copy too.
Read More...Lance Price on Where Power Lies
Posted On: February 10, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
A witty and informed look at the century-old battle between journalism and politics and what happened to the truth along the way, Lance Price talks about Where Power Lies.
Read More...Little Hands Clapping and a short film
Posted On: February 8, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Canongate
Canongate is re-issuing Dan Rhodes’s Anthropology and Timoleon Vieta Come Home to coincide with the publication of Little Hands Clapping, the latest novel from the man described by the Guardian as ‘reliably odd but fabulous’.
Read More...Read the first chapter of The Secret Speech
Posted On: February 5, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Tom Rob Smith talks about his hotly-anticipated follow-up to the Booker long-listed Child 44, The Secret Speech, and we let you read the whole of Chapter One.
Read More...Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter – a note from the author
Posted On: February 3, 2010Posted In: Articles, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
“When I talk to readers about my book I often lead with a joke that goes something like this: My last book Vows, was about how my father the Catholic priest met my mother the Catholic nun, so it was inevitable that my next book would be about Yiddish.”
Read More...Win a copy of Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey [closed]
Posted On: January 22, 2010Posted In: Competitions, Video
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Eddie Russett lives comfortably in a world where fortune, career and ultimate destiny are rigidly dictated by the colours you can see. Until he falls in love with Jane, and starts to question every aspect of the Rulebook.
Read More...Tim Bale on the Conservative Party
Posted On: January 21, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Polity
Tim Bale has published a major new assessment of the Conservative Party’s wilderness years which followed their removal of Margaret Thatcher from the leadership in 1990. It examines why it took the party so long to learn from its mistakes and also why change – when it did eventually come – happened so quickly.
Read More...Tobias Jones on The Salati Case
Posted On: January 19, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
Tobias Jones introduces his first novel, set in the foggy northern city of Parma in winter time, and his detective Castagnetti, and suggests why Italy is hard to beat as a setting for crime fiction.
Read More...Three questions for… Mary Beard
Posted On: January 14, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Profile Books
Mary Beard is professor of classics at Cambridge University. Last autumn she published the book of her blog A Don’s Life. In the book she reflects on the lot of a classics don at an elite university, the way in which the ancient world is portrayed in the media, the purpose of education and much else besides.
Read More...Neil Cross on new novel Captured
Posted On: January 12, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Neil Cross talks about and reads from his electrifying new novel Captured.
Read More...Science writer Marcus Chown on extraterrestrial life: “Where is everybody?”
Posted On: January 11, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
Science writer Marcus Chown responds to the question first posed by Enrico Fermi – the Italian physicist who developed the first nuclear reactor – about the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life: “Where is everybody?”
Read More...How not to run a club…
Posted On: December 28, 2009Posted In: Extracts, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week!
Read More...Richard Williams discusses The Animator’s Survival Kit
Posted On: December 23, 2009Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
The legendary Richard Williams, award-winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, talks about the new expanded edition of his worldwide bestseller, The Animator’s Survival Kit.
Read More...Win Simon & Schuster’s paperbacks of 2009 [closed]
Posted On: December 17, 2009Posted In: Articles, Competitions, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
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Find out about Simon & Schuster’s biggest reads from 2009 – and answer some simple questions to be in with a chance to win one of three sets of all ten books!
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