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Hidden Headlines: Teachers’ Top 100 Books

PR agencies love a good survey. Done well , it’s a fairly cost effective way of racking up the column inches. Which must have been the ploy with Think, Educate, Share’s recent survey – Teachers’ Top 100 Books. Pride and Prejudice topped the poll as chosen by 500 primary and secondary school teachers, followed by … Continue reading →

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4 Christmas Presents Every Book Geek Wants

We all know one. The unlucky among us will have to buy for one. The book geeks. The people who turn reading into a semi-professional competitive sport and who can smell a hastily removed ‘Buy one get one free’ sticker a mile off. You think they won’t notice? Oh yes they will. So for the … Continue reading →

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Books + Metadata = Lots of Fun

If you just so happen to like both books and data, then welcome to your new toy – the Google Labs Ngram Viewer. This nifty device allows anyone to search for a series of words or phrases – an ngram – in a database of more than 5 million books, or 500 billion words. From … Continue reading →

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The Best Book Meme in the World. Ever.

Thank you to the wonderful Jen Campbell (@aeroplanegirl), author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops for this legendary meme. Everyone knows THE way to a girls heart is through a bookshelf, or two. Keep up to date with her quite frankly manic schedule on her blog, This is Not a Six Word Novel.

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Giles Duley on Storytelling

Inspirational, to me, is a word that gets bandied around a little too readily. In the case of Giles Duley’s talk at the London TEDx event in March 2012, inspirational is exactly the right word for an incredibly humble man, sharing his extraordinary story. Follow Giles’s work on his website GilesDuley.com and on Twitter @GilesDuley

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