Wednesday December 1, 2021 at 7:46pm
After two years of careful reading, moving backwards through time, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. Take a quick look at five centuries of great writing ..Might your present or future book be a contender? Books published by our authors on the FeedARead.com site have made bestseller lists, including No Ordinary Life by Peter Stokes - an Amazon top ten book: the story of a founding member of the SAS who only told his children he'd been a Second World ....
Wednesday October 27, 2021 at 2:12pm
Book sites search engines often consider book titles in a variety of ways, including to recommend similar books with the familiar refrain of 'If you enjoyed this book you may enjoy ..'Both your book title and subtitle are ways to get your book additional recognition - both on book sites and on search engines. The more information you add, the more opportunity for your book to come to readers attention if readers search particular subjects on book sites, or on search engines, and words in y....
Saturday October 9, 2021 at 11:10am
Flashman's Winter – the latest in the Flashman series by Robert Brightwell with Thomas Flashman, the new generation of the Tom Brown’s School Days character. View on FeedARead.com The notorious Flashman emerged in Tom Brown’s schooldays, this book carries on a new generation of the family: Thomas Flashman, whose career covers the Napoleonic and Georgian era.In 1806 Prussia decl....
Thursday October 7, 2021 at 2:44pm
Publish your Book – High Royalty Payments We are very pleased to have made the latest royalty payments to authors and that for the sixth year running authors are making more sales. Thank you to everyone for publishing with us, and we welcome new authors at all times.FeedARead TeamNormal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE
Tuesday September 21, 2021 at 6:03pm
Almost every industry has experienced issues, and even some of the world's biggest companies have not been immune -- with experts warning that disruptions, especially around holiday shopping, are inevitable. In all manner of ways, the supply chain -- that complicated, multifaceted, too-many-steps-to-name process that brings products to consumers -- has been derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic. And the book publishing industry is no exception. View Full Story
Wednesday September 15, 2021 at 6:15pm
Novels set in Sri Lanka and South Africa, Cardiff Bay and the outer cosmos are among those to have been nominated for this year's Booker Prize.The chair of the judges said choosing the six "immersive" books had felt "transporting in a year when so many of us have been confined to home".The list includes three American writers and, for the second year in a row, only one British author.View Full Story
Monday September 6, 2021 at 10:44pm
Beer for two in Böckler Park, BerlinYou asked me for a love poemand I gave you a text message and a handful ofimaginary paprika crisps. You told me this wasinsufficient to the moment and I agreed.It was 3.08pm. I wrapped a single curl aroundmy index finger – smiled. The thing about loveis the very thinginess of it. You must agree!A ‘now I’ve got you now I never won’t’.View full poem
Wednesday September 1, 2021 at 5:53pm
This novel is a virtuoso performance. A literary homage to Fielding and Sterne, it tells the story of Thomas Peach, who moves to a remote corner of Somerset in 1785 to nurse his ailing wife. But his wife is never seen, and gossip is rife. Is Mr Peach “a scholar of mysterious arts”, and has he imprisoned his wife “in order to get his grasping hands on an inheritance”?When Mr Peach travels to Bristol for a meeting of the Anti-Lapsarian Society, which aims to reverse the Fal....
Friday August 27, 2021 at 1:43pm
1. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014) An engrossing account of the looming catastrophe caused by ecology’s “neighbours from hell” – mankind.2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)This steely and devastating examination of the author’s grief following the sudden death of her husband changed the nature of writing about bereavement. 3. No Logo by Naomi Klein (1999) Naomi Klein’s timely anti-branding bible combined a fresh approach to ....
Friday August 20, 2021 at 4:01pm
Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch and Large family author dies at 72image sourceNic KnightChildren's author and illustrator Jill Murphy, who created the beloved Worst Witch books, has died at the age of 72.Murphy also published picture books including the Large family series, Peace at Last and The Last Noo-Noo.Belinda Ioni Rasmussen, managing director of Macmillan Children's Books, said: "She had an unparalleled talent for storytelling through words and pictures."Without doubt, her picture ....