Well, we’re inching closer to having survived another winter. Next week there’ll be about 1 million posts about romance and love books because boy do we love an invented holiday to prop up the retail sector in a down month. So enjoy your blissfully over-packaged chocolate free news now while you can, because next week it’s EXPLODE WITH CORPORATE LOVE!

- Lousie Halfe named new Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate;
- TWUC calls for investigation into PRHC gobble of S&S;
- Waterstones to its Covid-furloughed min wage workers: get bent;
- Put spoken word in schools;
- Book piracy in the time of scurvy;
- Are you a bookworm? Gross, you vermin;
- Romance people have stopped fighting long enough to get an awards list;
- Carnegie Medal winners;
- Frigging NBCC can’t do anything right these days;
- “Surprise” Hunter Biden addiction memoir coming;
- When the Germans are side-eyeing you for fascist tendencies, Belarus, something is up;
- Wales, where a smidge of my genetic goo comes from, gets a library bailout;
- MY WORLDS ARE COLLIDING! (The literary version of Street Fighter);