Elsewhere

Elsewhere is a 4 book collaboration between Cargo, of Scotland, McSweeney's, of the USA, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival featuring brand new work from 50 of the world's leading authors. With the support of the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, the Book Festival commissioned fifty authors to write short stories, poems or essays, all on the theme of 'Elsewhere'

Video: The London Book Fair: 2013 Market FocusTurkey

The London Book Fair featured China as its market focus in 2012. Turkey will be the 2013 London Book Fair Market Focus, exhibiting turkish publishers and literature dominantly. This video shows Turkey stand in 2012 London Book Fair, which is expected to significantly expand next year

Video: There's No Place Like Here: Brazenhead Books

Tucked high above the bustle of the street, Michael's secret secondhand bookshop is a mecca for those who savor the story behind the volume

Read it, hear it, watch it: a new app brings poetry alive (UK)

The Wire star Dominic West is backing a free new app designed to bring poetry to a mass audience. West is one of more than 30 British actors from Dan Stevens to the late Harold Pinter who read dozens of poems on The Poetry App whose development was begun by the writer Josephine Hart before her death from cancer. It aims to emulate the success of her long-running Poetry Hours in which she would introduce poems that would then be read aloud by a star cast

Moby-Dick captures stars for reading voyage (UK)

Magnificent yet daunting, Moby-Dick stands as one of the great classics of American literature, much admired but - sprawling and intimidating - seldom read. Now an unlikely combination of fans including David Cameron, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry and Simon Callow are set to change that after joining the cast of an ambitious project to record the novel in its entirety

London book and poetry events: 12-18 September, 2012

Book, poetry and spoken word events in London 12-18 September, 2012

2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa

2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa has been won by Sifizo Mzobe

Michael Cart offers a tribute to Gore Vidal

In his latest podcast, Infopeople's Michael Cart offers a fond tribute to the late, great man of letters, Gore Vidal, who passed away on July 31 at 86

This is your brain on Jane Austen, and Stanford researchers are taking notes

Researchers observe the brain patterns of literary PhD candidates while they're reading a Jane Austen novel. The fMRI images suggest that literary reading provides "a truly valuable exercise of people's brains."

2012 Guernsey Literary Festival

2012 Guernsey Literary Festival - 13-16 September, 2012