Until earlier this year, novelist and film-maker Omar Robert Hamilton didn’t know what Baillie Gifford was – it was just “two words that [he’d] seen on top of things for years and years”. While aware that it sponsored some literary organisations, Hamilton didn’t know whether the investment management firm “was a drink or a bank […]
A new charity which gives away books at food banks has launched on Tuesday, with a view to providing “book banks” for food bank guests across the UK. Bookbanks was conceived by Emily Rhodes, a writer and critic who has worked in publishing and bookselling. In 2022 she started volunteering at her local food bank […]
A book about book bans has been banned in a Florida school district. Ban This Book, a children’s book written by Alan Gratz, will no longer be available in the Indian River county school district since the school board voted to remove the book last month. Gratz’s book, which came out in 2017, follows fourth-grader […]
We seem to live in a time of magic, when a slight movement of our fingers can get us anything we ever wanted on our doorstep. A toaster? Yours tomorrow. Cat food? It will be here by Thursday. The process from click to door is so easy, it doesn’t require a second thought. In his […]
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