Legend Press are launching a new website, IndieBooks, which will sell a limited range of fifty fiction and non-fiction titles from independent publishers. >>

Charles Lambert's debut novel Little Monsters and story collection The Scent of Cinnamon both met with critical acclaim. His new novel, Any Human Face is a thriller. The Fiction Desk interviewed him about his writing and the inspiration he finds in Italy's political corruption. >>

Knopf in the US and Penguin Classics in the UK have together published an elegant facsimile edition of Vladimir Nabokov's draft for The Original of Laura. But what are we supposed to do with it? >>

Reading Seven Lives of John Murray, Humphrey Carpenter's history of that publishing house, raises the question of whether independent publishers and booksellers might benefit from teaming up... or even being one and the same? >>

The Last Englishman: the double life of Arthur Ransome is a new biography of the Swallows and Amazons author, focussing on the years he spent in Russia during the Soviet revolution. >>