Pages & Proofs

The study of beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, dragonflies and all the other insects has accounted for a hefty slice of literature over the centuries. This selection of rare entomology books covers anatomical research, beautiful illustrations, pestilence and guides to beekeeping. Enjoy our amazing bug books.

A Brazilian author has stripped in front of the Government place in Lima, Peru, to protest against ebook piracy. Vanessa de Oliveira is a former call girl and her protest caused quite a stir, and generated some useful publicity for her books. Here’s a link to the video. After taking off a long overcoat, she revealed […]

I don’t write a sentence like this very often. ‘Yesterday, a Briton won the Tour de France.’ Well done to Bradley Wiggins who is King of Cycling this week, although he doesn’t have much time to celebrate with the Olympics looming. Expect to see copies of Wiggins’ autobiography – In Pursuit of Glory – shifting […]

Cornish author E.V. Thompson has died at the age of 81. The writer specialised in historical novels. He became an author after working in Rhodesia as a security office and his breakthrough book was Chase the Wind in 1977. He also worked in the Navy and has a bobby in Bristol.  The BBC has the story. […]

The Penguin Modern Poets series is 50 years old. Another landmark for that wonderful publisher and a notable landmark for poetry itself. It all began in 1962. Each book contains the work of three modern poets and the series was an attempt to bring poetry to a wider audience in affordable paperbacks rather than an […]

Scottish author Denise Mina has won the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award for The End of the Wasp Season, a tale of suicide and murder amid the financial crisis. Apparently, it’s Tartan Noir – a phrase that makes me smile. Read The Guardian’s report. “It’s about the financial crisis, it’s about tectonic […]

Enjoy this video from our friends at Penguin about the latest version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. There are more circles and dots than you can shake a stick at. According to the Penguin site, “Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her […]

Anna Funder’s debut novel All That I Am won the 2012 the Miles Franklin Award. Australia’s most coveted literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award recognizes excellence in writing and has been presented annually since 1957. The list of winners includes Randolph Stow, Patrick White, David Ireland, Thomas Keneally, Tim Winton, Peter Carey and Ruth Park. […]

A short but sweet video.

The C.S. Lewis Foundation is planning to create a C.S. Lewis College in Massachusetts. The proposed property is the former campus of two Christian schools and Christianity will be the key theme for the college and its students. Lewis was a former atheist who became a Christian in his thirties. To some people his writing […]