Nobel Prizes and Other News

So the word is out that a dude in China, Mo Yan, aged 57 has been selected for the Nobel Prize for literature. His writing is described as a blending of magic realism and social realism. That’s literary terms for weird stuff that is confusing and therefore good, or which us popular fiction types call […]

Hello world!

There’s been some changes with the way my blog is brought to you. Microsoft are transferring their Live Spaces blogging facility to the care of WordPress, hence all future blogs will originate here. But there is a huge plus with using WordPress, and that is the freedom offered by all the different tools that are […]

No VAT on Books

The UK coalition government has today announced its emergency budget, amongst which, are plans to increase VAT from 17.5% to 20% on 4th January 2011. Publishers and Booksellers were worried that the government may try to get rid of the 0% VAT on books, forcing the prices higher in an already difficult period for book sales. Ebooks and other […]