Melville House Books

After decades of being known world-wide as the friendliest jurisdiction to sue someone for libel in, England is set to change its laws. Earlier this year, the path to libel… Read more »

Amanda Knox, even while appearing on prime time television in America to promote her book Waiting to Be Heard, is facing yet another murder trial in Italy for a crime—of… Read more »

Last week, Tripoli hosted the city’s largest ever secondhand book sale, offering books that had previously been forbidden during Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. Held in Martyrs Square, book stands with academic… Read more »

If you wait long enough, an epic scam becomes part of the historical record. At least, that’s what has happened to the famous forged “Hitler Diaries” which have just been… Read more »

In a long remembrance of her father in the Financial Times, Julia Hobsbawm, daughter of the celebrated English historian Eric Hobsbawm, recalls her father’s need to be almost constantly reading.… Read more »