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There has been much noise in the Twitterverse about Apple giving everyone in the iTunesverse a copy of the new U2 album Songs of Innocence ...

Mark Amory, the Spectator ’s literary editor for so many years he can’t remember – could be 25, could be nearly 30, he says – bids farewell...

The Independent notices a book about stationery .  James Ward’s Adventures in Stationery: a journey through your pencil case (Profile Boo...

Sometimes I get to read pre-publication copies of books. These things are given to booksellers to read, and they pass them on to customers ...

English newspapers have the best obituaries. Best of them all, weeks after week, are the ones in the Economist . Why? Because Ann Wroe, the...

In breaking pedestrian-crossing news, Wellington City Council announces : Wellington has a new character to replace the ‘green man’. ...

The Wiki Man column in the Spectator of 30 August begins: I was waiting on an office forecourt recently puffing on an e-cigarette when ...

This morning a courier delivered a package from Booksellers NZ. It contained a signed copy of the NZ Post Book Awards’ book of the year...

For research purposes I spent the morning at the Cambridge Equine Hospital . Take it from me, you ain’t seen nothing until you have seen an...

It’s a funny thing but every three years in early spring (for overseas readers: election time) my thoughts turn to this Little Feat song an...