Pages & Proofs

To celebrate the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s birth on 30 November 1874, Marc Kuritz of Churchill Book Collector was kind enough to answer our questions about his bookselling business. Churchill Book Collector – a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America – is located in San Diego, California, and is run by Marc and […]

The PBFA’s Kensington Christmas Book Fair returns on Saturday December 12. The event was launched last year and proved to be a big hit with book collectors. Once again, AbeBooks.co.uk is a sponsor. Kensington Town Hall is again playing host to around 70 booksellers, including several from overseas. On display will be a vast range of […]

The shortlists for the 2015 Costa book awards have been announced. There are five prizes in all and two major names – Anne Enright and Kate Atkinson – appear among the contenders for the novel prize. The Guardian notes that The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley, which is up for the first novel prize, had […]

Here’s our latest video – a salute to vintage murder mysteries. “Corpse” is not the sweetest word in the dictionary but it is very functional. It describes quite clearly that the living thing is no more (an ex-human as the Monty Python folks might say).  And that’s why crime writers adore the word ‘corpse’. It […]

Once a month we like to take a look at the previous month’s hottest signed books. October had a musical flare, with memoirs from icons Patti Smith, John Fogerty, and Elvis Costello making an appearance in the top 10. Literary big-hitters Jonathan Franzen, Lauren Groff, and Andy Weir are hanging on after multiple months in […]

What book would you take to a desert island? Rolling Stones star Keith Richards selected Doctor Dogbody’s Leg by James Norman Hall when he appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs show last month. The book is an entertaining collection of short stories told by Dr. Dogbody, a crusty one-legged old sailor, in a […]