RectoVerso #1 - The Audrey Niffenegger Interview

True bookworms will agree that you can never have too many books or book columns. With that in mind, RectoVerso‘s thanks are due to Broken Spine‘s Ronan, who agreed that there was room for another book column on Culch, and so it is that RectoVerso will be coming to you weekly, recommending, reviewing and ruminating. You can expect posts to be on a Friday, but for this week only, since we’ve been only bursting about the excitement of it all (I say we, I mean me), we bring you the very best post we could come up with to launch the new column: an interview with Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, to name but a few. Audrey was on a one-stop visit to Ireland recently to do a reading and Q&A session for Hughes and Hughes Dundrum with Edel Coffey of the Irish … There’s more

Free eBook downloads from Paulo Coelho

It’s Paulo Coelho‘s birthday today. Author of so many great books, including The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage and Eleven Minutes, he’s one of those few people whose writing can be said to be “life-affirming”. To celebrate, he’s just made some eBooks available for download for free. He says he doesn’t “intend to sell the rights for publishing houses in the next two years.” The books include The Way of the Bow, Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren volumes 1 and 2 and Warrior of the Light volumes 1 and 2. You can download the books over on : http://paulocoelhoblog.com/internet-books/ You can wish Paulo a happy birthday on twitter by finding him here: http://twitter.com/paulocoelho