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At the heart of it all, I’m a fan. A fan of books and bookstores. A fan of fiction and non-fiction. A fan of authors and publishers. And most of all I’m a fan of great conversations sparked by books. All that to say - I really need more bookshelves.

Booker Shortlist

Here’s the official site.

Here’s the list, with links to the books and the publishers:

Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss Hamish Hamilton
Grenville, Kate The Secret RiverCanongate
Hyland, M.J. Carry Me DownCanongate
Matar, Hisham In the Country of MenViking
St Aubyn, Edward Mother’s MilkPicador
Waters, Sarah The Night WatchVirago

Amazon e-book

The folks over at engadget posted pics of Amazon’s own e-book reader. No real details on price or launch yet. I wonder how they’re going to pitch this to the publishers?