I can safely say that I have been kept well and truly busy recently with so many of you getting into the book exchange spirit and sending us a fantastically diverse range of books for other readers to sample, cherish and fall in love with.

Looks like we are not the only organisation celebrating Booktrust’s Children’s Reading Fund as Waterstones pledged last week to raise £200,000 a year for the charity to help children in care have access to books.

Hooray it's Bank Holiday weekend and what better way to celebrate then to give you free postage on all books until Monday!

10 lovely literary LitBits to stroke your bookish-bones this week...

I came across a rather wonderful kickstarter campaign for The Library Cafe the other day which really chimed with me (books, creative events and coffee - my perfect mecca!) so I got in touch with Matt the man behind the mission to find out more about it.  Here he is talking us through the where, the what, the why - and most importantly how you can help make this dream a reality...

The travel site cheapflights.co.uk has created a rather fabulous infographic exploring some of the real-life locations as featured in children’s books. And as we love a) infographics and b) kids books we simply had to share.

This month we have come over all child-like so are focusing on all the books that switched us onto reading when we were little. Come join in let us know what your favourite books were when you were just starting out on your reading adventure.

Continuing on from our ‘Literary Awards Part one' selection, this week we turn our attention to some of the smaller prizes out there.  Those that that may come with somewhat less impressive pay cheques and publicity but carry just as much importance to readers, writers and publishers alike.  Dear friends, keep your eyes peeled for some of these wonderful awards this year…

We were right there with those of you who felt a jolt of sadness yesterday when it was announced that the social reading site Goodreads will be joining the Amazon ‘family’. The big question on everyone's lips now is will they devour or nurture...

Founded in San Francisco in 2007 in Otis Chandler’s front room Goodreads is one of the most prominent online communities for readers with over 16 million members using it worldwide.

Here at Book Exchange HQ we love a literary award, not only do they bring to our attention authors and titles we might have otherwise missed but also because anything that raises the profile of reading across the country is alright by us!  So we thought we would create a little compendium of dates for a handful of the book awards coming your way during 2013. This week a selection of the big hitters...