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For the Guardian , Alison Flood compiled a list of the top 10 most frequently stolen books. One book on the chart: JK Rowling: Harry Potter ...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Secret Son by Laila Lalami . About the book , from the publisher: Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of...

From Anna Metcalfe's Q & A with James Lasdun at the Financial Times : What is the last thing you read that made you laugh out loud?...

At the Guardian , John Mullan named ten of the best deserts in literature. One novel on the list: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje M...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug by Paul Gootenberg . About the book , from the publish...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: A Knife Edge by David Rollins . About the book , from the publisher: In this latest internationall...

The current featured contributor at Writer's Read: Joshua Fogel , Canada Research Chair in Chinese history at York University in Toronto...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: the Taylor Jackson series by J.T. Ellison . The entry begins: Contrarian that I am, I don’t like to tell ...

Michael Quinion , author of Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary , named a five best list of books on language for the Wall...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S. G. Browne . About the book , from the publisher: For fans o...

Jay McInerney is the author of Bright Lights, Big City and other books. His How It Ended , a volume of new and collected short stories, has...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: If I Stay by Gayle Forman . About the book , from the publisher: In a single moment, everything c...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank . ...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Janni Lee Simner , author of three books for kids, more than 30 short stories for kids, t...

At The Week , author Steven Johnson recommended six books about scientifi c breakthroughs. One title on the list: The First Word by Christ...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson . About the book , from the publisher: A haunting novel of loss,...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Seth...

James Runcie is an award-winning documentary film-maker and the author of four novels. East Fortune , his new novel, is available now in the...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: My Abandonment by Peter Rock . About the book , from the publisher: A thirteen-year-old girl and h...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Joshua Gans , an economics professor at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbo...