The Hunger Games

I had been meaning to read the Hunger Games since seeing the film. The story intrigued me and I usually find that books are so much better than any film can be. The Hunger Games is the first instalment in the trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Set in a future where America is no more and [...]

Guerilla Social Media Marketing

Image by Infusionsoft via Flickr I’ve been a big fan of Jay Conrad Levinson’s books for the last number of years. His “guerilla marketing” handbook and the series of books that it spawned, are well worth reading for anyone who is interested in marketing their business. So the “social media” title caught my attention. The [...]

Kindle Ebooks Outselling Traditional Paper Ones

Amazon have been a game changing company since they first launched themselves into ecommerce offering books and books alone. Prior to Amazon’s Kindle there had been many attempts to launch ebooks, but none of them met with any real success. The Kindle changed that dramatically. And according to a release from Amazon in the last [...]

Clive Cussler’s The Spy

Clive Cussler seems to churn out novels at an incredible rate. While he’s unlikely to win the Booker prize, his novels are always a good read. The most recent of them, The Spy, is part of his series set in early 20th century USA. The stories revolve around a fictional detective agency – the Van [...]

Garcia Lorca

A day late admittedly, but Garcia Lorca was born on June 5th 1898 While the date of his birth is clear that of his death isn’t, as he was murdered during the Spanish Civil War.

Crush It!

Image via Wikipedia Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Crush It!” makes for a fast and easy read. I read the book a couple of months ago over a couple of days, as I’d seen someone interviewing the author and it piqued my interest. Vaynerchuk will never win a Nobel prize for literature, but his “voice” is genuine and [...]

Dick Francis RIP

Image via Wikipedia Author Dick Francis has passed away at the age of 89. Francis, who started out as a highly successful jockey went on to write 40 bestsellers which have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 20 languages. Francis died in the Cayman Islands where a [...]

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