http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:31:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we near the end of a week celebrating libraries around the country, culminating tomorrow with special events to mark National Libraries Day (see yesterday's blog), it seems fitting to highlight the new pop-up library at Selfridges in London (found in the UltraLounge on the Lower Ground floor of the ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/pop-ups-pop-to-your-local-library-any-time/ Library goers up and down the UK are preparing to mark National Libraries Day on 4 February 2012. It will be the finale to a week of events that will celebrate libraries and librarians, and highlight the importance of reading. For example, in London at Canning Town Library, library users ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/gret-ready-for-national-libraries-day/ Tomorrow, Picador will be celebrating their 40th Anniversary with the reissue of 12 fiction titles with specially designed covers - all black and white.  Those who follow this blog know that I love looking at these 'sets'...to be honest, it doesn't mean I will buy them, but I enjoy the ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/wednesday-cover-story-picadors-40th-anniversary-editions/ The worldwide word-of-mouth sensation Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford will be out on 27 February 2012.  A long-lasting New York Times bestseller and now translated into 30 languages, now readers will soon get their hands on the much-awaited UK paperback release. Pre-order it here ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/offers/pre-order-the-worldwide-bestselling-debut-and-get-30-off/ Last week's issue of Stylist included a list of book adaptations due to hit the big screen this year, and as a frequent cinema-goer, I'm looking forward to quite a few of them. First, on the 10th February, comes eerie horror, The Woman in Black. I haven't read the book, ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/what-upcoming-film-adaptations-are-you-looking-forward-to/ If you read the title of this blog quickly, don’t worry, I’m not going to enumerate the many and varied ways I’m attempting to get back into something resembling shape this January, though that has unfortunately been a preoccupation of mine these past few, dark weeks. No, what I realized ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/a-healthy-reading-diet/ I was interested to see some of the different responses online, whether praise or furore, to the news that McDonald’s were giving away Michael Morpurgo's Mudpuddle Farm books with Happy Meals this month. Read the news here and here. and  Perhaps it’s the visualization of a book in the place ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/would-you-like-fries-or-a-book-with-that/ Last week the blog Letters of Note, posted a letter written by author John Steinbeck to his then teenage and love-struck son, Thomas, back in 1958. Although it has been in the public domain since the 1980s, this recent spotlight has shot the letter to sudden fame. It has since ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/bring-back-the-letter/ There are some covers which are lovely pieces of design in themselves, but don't actually "sell" the book to the reader. One example I came across recently was the hardback cover to The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach. I had seen the book on a table in my local ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/wednesday-cover-story-hardback-v-paperback/ Yesterday, as I recently discovered, was the Chinese New Year. The literal translation of its Chinese name is 'Spring Festival', and so it marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. I wish it was feeling like spring already, but I'm afraid it's a bit early for it ... http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/happy-year-of-the-dragon/