Feature on actor/novelist David Thewlis, whose The Late Hector Kipling - ("This book is a disgrace." - Jake Chapman) is recently out. Great stories about being on set with Brando ("... I've seen him naked and he was a big fella."), etc
More than 100,000 books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library. The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after 1st editions.
An underground monastery dating back to the 17th century has been restored in West Russia's Belgorod region "During the Revolution, the monks had abandoned the complex and for some time the caves were populated by anarchist gangs."
Iron gall ink - made from oak apples - turning your parchments to jelly? Never fear - the Diamond Synchrotron (great name!) can unravel their secrets before it's too late...
A handy list, with some well-known names, as you'd expect (Achebe, Coetzee, Mahfouz, etc) - but plenty of others I hadn't come accross. There's a non-fiction list, too.
simpy
