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September 12, 2025

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Why It Still Matters

By Nicky Blewitt When I first picked up The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in 1985, I’ll…

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April 21, 2020

Listen to Stephen King Read an Excerpt of If It Bleeds

The news hasn't been great lately, but out of this entire crisis we've had some…

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March 24, 2020

Neil Gaiman Shares Free Literary Readings

English author, Neil Gaiman, is known for writing a vast array of books from graphic…

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September 5, 2019

Exclusive First Extract from Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, yet over 30 years later this dystopian fiction…

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May 6, 2019

Elisabeth Moss narrates The Handmaid’s Tale

Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House and the publisher of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s…

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February 3, 2019

Stephen King Announces a New Novel ‘The Institute’, Read an Excerpt Here

This week Stephen King announced on his website that he has a new novel coming…

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January 21, 2019

Lost LGBT Pulp Classic, Work for a Million, returning to print

Work for a Million is a novel by Eve Zaremba which was first published in…

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October 31, 2018

Stephen King reads excerpt from his new book ‘Elevation’.

Stephen King is back with a new story to intrigue and entertain us. Elevation is a…

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October 23, 2018

The Big Read: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hilda Swinton and Others Read Moby Dick

We’re a little late to the party on this one but it’s so fantastic we…

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October 6, 2018

Listen to an Excerpt of Blood Communion, the Latest Book in the Vampire Chronicles

The Vampire Chronicles is a long running series of books by Anne Rice, starting with…

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