Melville House Books

At first it didn’t seem suspicious: a comment by someone named Suzan Loughney to one of our posts about the Kindle. Wrote Loughney, I like reading and at the beginning… 24 / Read more »

As we’ve already reported, Lee Rourke’s The Canal is the co-winner of The Guardian’s Not The Booker prize alongside Matthew Hooton’s Deloume Road. It’s been a grand year so far… 10 / Read more »

  In this, the penultimate installment, we again introduce the rare and wonderful English language used by Jean-Christophe Valtat in his novel Aurorarama – language that often stumped our dear copy-editor. Today’s… Read more »

The passing on Monday of indie bookstore legend Carla Cohen reminded us that among the many wonderful things she has bequeathed us is what may be the very best in-store… Read more »