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The Bookhugger Author Panel: Welcome to the real world
Posted On: March 17, 2010Posted In: Author panels
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
We asked four authors how they handle the use of real places and people in fictional stories, and what they think the benefits are for the reader of such familiar elements.
Read More...Sir John Lister Kaye on his definition of nature writing
Posted On: March 2, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
Naturalist and conservationist Sir John Lister Kaye on what it means to him to be a nature writer.
Read More...An interview with Emily Mackie
Posted On: March 1, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Sceptre
Emily Mackie sits in the Bookhugger hot-seat to talk about her forthcoming debut novel, And This Is True, the book she wishes she had written and her cunning plan to avoid writing postmodern twaddle.
Read More...The Booklist: Love Hurts
Posted On: February 15, 2010Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
It’s not all wine and roses… witty, cunning, despairing, or just in very bad taste, Bookhugger gives you an alternative choice to the planned perfumed perfection that was Valentine’s Day!
Read More...Irene Sabatini: The Book That…
Posted On: February 4, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Sceptre
What do writers read? Irene Sabatini, whose debut novel The Boy Next Door has just been published, tells us about the books that have made her laugh, cry, kept her awake at night, and more.
Read More...The Book Doctor is in the house
Posted On: January 28, 2010Posted In: The Book Doctor
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Bookhugger’s mystery medic is back to answer more of your cries for help – just what should you read next after you finish a book you have loved?
Read More...Steven Asma’s monster gallery
Posted On: January 20, 2010Posted In: Articles, Audio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
George Miller talks to Stephen Asma about On Monsters, his wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters, and we have an exclusive gallery of illustrations from the book too.
Read More...Broken your New Year’s Resolution? Here’s how to get back on track….
Posted On: January 18, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
In this Bookhugger exclusive, the authors of You Need This Book to Get What You Want, Mark Palmer and Scott Solder, help you get your New Year’s Resolutions back on course.
Read More...The Booklist – Christmas Cheer
Posted On: December 23, 2009Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Wave goodbye to boredom and sleep after this year’s Christmas dinner as Bookhugger’s publishers suggest several titles guaranteed to raise eyebrows, encourage debate and tickle out a laugh from even the most jaded.
Read More...Hilary Mantel reading from Wolf Hall
Posted On: December 4, 2009Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Enjoy this Bookhugger audio exclusive – Hilary Mantel reading from the Man Booker Prize 2009 winning Wolf Hall. Running time: 13 minutes.
Read More...Michael Slater on Charles Dickens
Posted On: December 2, 2009Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Yale University Press
In this Bookhugger exclusive, Michael Slater reads from his new biography of Charles Dickens, the first major life of the novelist to appear in nearly twenty years.
Read More...Simon Tofield – one man and his cat
Posted On: November 27, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
Simon Tofield is an award-winning illustrator, animator and director at Tandem Films in London. He is the creator of the Internet phenomenon Simon’s Cat, the highest-rated animations ever on YouTube. Fresh from his BBC Breakfast appearance, Simon took some time to answer a few questions just for Bookhugger.
Read More...The Booklist: I have seen the future, and it’s…
Posted On: November 24, 2009Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Is your glass half full, or half empty? Do you wear rose tinted spectacles, or do you consider life through a glass, darkly? We’re all of us on this planet going somewhere, but where, and how?
Read More...Come in to the Book Doctor’s surgery
Posted On: November 9, 2009Posted In: The Book Doctor
Publisher: The Book Doctor
The Book Doctor helps readers in distress to find the most important medicine of all: their next book. Come in, take a seat (don’t sit next to the woman with swine flu) and wait for your name to be called…
Read More...The Bookhugger Author Panel: Writing from life
Posted On: November 3, 2009Posted In: Author panels
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
We asked three very different authors about how their life experiences feed in to their writing – and about how that writing is subjected to commercial pressures. What wins – money or art?
Read More...The Bookhugger Author Panel: Popular science
Posted On: October 30, 2009Posted In: Author panels
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
We asked three notable authors of popular science books about their craft? How do you strike the balance between your intended purpose and the complexities of the subject matter?
Read More...The Booklist: After the War
Posted On: October 30, 2009Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
The act of War has affected hundreds of millions of people in so many different ways over the centuries. These memories should never be allowed to be forgotten. Bookhugger’s publishers present some of the most haunting fiction and non-fiction you will ever read…
Read More...The Booklist: Out of Office
Posted On: August 31, 2009Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Sat at your desk dreaming of something different? A new life somewhere exotic? A job that’s not office-based drudgery? Take some inspiration from our publishers’ tales of new possibilities…
Read More...The Book Doctor is in
Posted On: August 29, 2009Posted In: The Book Doctor
Publisher: The Book Doctor
It’s that time of the month where the Book Doctor opens the clinic doors and proffers assistance to the benighted, befuddled and bemused in their search for new and exciting reading material.
Read More...The Bookhugger Author Panel: Historical fiction
Posted On: August 27, 2009Posted In: Author panels
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Bookhugger asked three writers of historical novels to talk to us about the finding the balance between historical accuracy and telling a damn fine tale.
Read More...The Bookhugger Author Panel: Reportage
Posted On: August 8, 2009Posted In: Author panels
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Bookhugger asked three top-notch non-fiction writers to tell us about the techniques they use to research, imagine and depict their subjects.
Read More...The Book Doctor at large
Posted On: July 30, 2009Posted In: The Book Doctor
Publisher: The Book Doctor
The Book Doctor – a National Help Service for those with problems of a bookish disposition (don’t forget that you too can ask the Book Doctor for help). Without further ado, here are this month’s victims, erm, patients…
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