With more and more authors taking the production of their books into their own hands, more and more of those books look... strange. That’s not a good thing for either authors or their readers. Book ...

Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

Despite a steady rise in the popularity of e-books and a surge in ownership of electronic readers and tablets, real dead-tree paper books are not about the exit the scene any time soon. And while most ...

I own a book that I’ve read into but never really read. Still, I hang onto it. It’s a 1907 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with a fire-engine-red cover out of which ...