News Around the Net

BookExpo Canada may be cancelled this year, due to lack of interest.

Washington Post may be ceasing its Sunday extra Book World.

Irvine Welsh is auctioning off a part in his upcoming prequel to Trainspotting.

Narnia's White Witch and Neverland's Captain Hook have been voted the scariest villains in children's literature.

The Manchester Guardian has assumed the daunting task of listing the 1000 novels everyone must read.

Mystery writer Jack Higgins celebrates 50 years of writing. Don't we all wish we could be that lucky?

Virginia Woolf still has something to say on the art of reading.

Check-out girl's memoir a best-seller.

Salman Rushdie reflects on fatwa.