We've mentioned this dubious German bestseller quite a few times, and now Jason Burke reports in The Observer that, as feared, Publishers battle to sign up Europe's sex sensation, Feuchtgebiete.
is going on right now, and in the Western Mail Catherine Jones looks at Making hay: Huge impact of literary event. Meanwhile, of course, The Guardian has extensive coverage of the festival.
After ten plus years as literary editor of The Observer Robert McCrum has called it quits, and in A thriller in ten chapters looks at some of the major changes in the literary world over that time (yes, including the