
- Giant pencil sculpture stolen from writers centre…. Police currently have no (wait for it) leads (heyooooo);
- Walter Scott Prize longlist;
- BBC actually posts some book content with a a list of overlooked recent novels (Bookninja pal Esi Edugyan is on here);
- The romance novel lobby wants you to read romances for happiness in stressful times (ftr, in my experience, pills have far fewer egregious genitalia metaphors than romance novels);
- Amazon is now licensing cashierless checkout tech to other companies;
- Booknet has an interesting looking podcast on “outside-the-box” (but not, apparently, “out-the-cliche”) partnerships — saving to listen later;