25th February 2011
Cathy Macleod's Booktaste Blog.
SEX sells. We all know this. Ever since Adam and Eve donned figleafs the world has relished a risqué read. And once again comes the proof, with British newspapers and magazines revelling in muck that's 200 years old. Even...
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22nd October 2009
WOW! It's gotta be good when Amazon, the discount king, lists a fiction title at $54. The book in question is Wee Charlie's World by Bryce McBryce. Seems that the brat who is the bane of the British Raj has become rare and valuable literature. Are good hu...
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15th October 2009
Publishers and booksellers are off at a sprint for Christmas, striving for a place up front, if not actually first, in the till tally.
Top seller for this year's final quarter, says Booktaste, is obviously going to be Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. This th...
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29th April 2009
IN the vast sea of digital fiction, one recently voiced trade perception is that there are more authors than there are readers. Whoopee for readers! The choice of titles has never been greater, yet are these books worth reading?
As an avid reader, I welc...
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22nd January 2009
Cathy Macleod, January 2009:One could write a book, and somebody probably will, about the pain and drama unfolding now in the book world. The question is would anyone read it?The answer is yes, yes, a million times yes! There will always be book readers, ...
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13th January 2009
says Cathy Macleod.Tralala, it has got me going lyrical . . .Surging, flooding, books galore, sweeping over Reading's shore. Where to dip and find a winner? How to tell a saint from sinner? Easy done, I promise you - here is all you have to do: Browse the...
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Born 1969 in Scotland, Cathy Macleod is a lifelong journalist, widely travelled. She writes a weekly blog on news, views and interviews concerning the book world, at http://www.booktaste.com.
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