It's that time again folks, World Book Night 2013 has been launched and the titles to be given away on 23 April next year have been announced.  With 20,000 volunteers gifting 20 books within their communities, that’s a whopping 400,000 books in total (a figure that reflects the rough equivalent of a single days book sales in the UK).

Release your inner child and celebrate 25 years of Rob Reiner's adaptation of William Goldman’s fabulously witty novel The Princess Bride.

Spooks – how do you take yours scary or secretive?

We are delighted to open the review floor to Lucinda who won a copy of Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales for Young and Old in our October free books giveaway. As a fan of both the author and classic fairytales Lucinda fell head-over-heels for the book and we simply had to share her love with you all. 

So without further ado over to you Lucinda...

As you know here at book exchange HQ we love a good infographic and the lovely designers over at Neo Mammalian Studios have created this brilliant one 50/50 Shades of Grey, taking a look at all the facts, figures and statistics behind E. L. James‘ hugely successful erotic novel.

A recent article in The New York Times, The Best Reviews Money Can Buy has grabbed the publishing industry by the scruff of its neck this week as it explored the murky world of paid-for author reviews.

Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a quirky and unusual literary competition that, instead of heralding well-written prose, champions terribly written sentences.

Attention all book lovers the Man Booker 2012 long-list was announced at 3.30pm today (Wednesday 25 July) causing twitter to go into bookish over-drive – bliss for someone like me but probably painful for the non-reader!

After scouring the internet we have compiled a list of the 12 books that have been read, enjoyed and recommended by various different reading groups creating your years’ worth of ‘must have’ book club reads...

Julian Barnes has published a pamphlet titled A Life with Books in celebration of Independent Booksellers Week. The pamphlet is available for £1.99 and is exclusive to independent bookshops with all proceeds going to the charity Freedom from Torture.