For any author to write enough good books to make a selection of their best 10 is a fantastic achievement. Elmore Leonard wrote over 40 books and they were all somewhere between good and great. Read more...

The Nikon Coolpix A is one of the new category of compact cameras with a big sensor to match the picture quality of DSLRs. It’s a very stylish camera, not as sleek as its rival the Ricoh GR V, as it has a slightly more boxy shape and the lens mount protrudes further, but it’s nevertheless a lovely camera and perfectly pocketable. Read more...

Traditional publishers are starting to wake up to the ebook potential of their backlists and this week sees Simon & Schuster republishing Martin Cruz Smith’s 1980s’ best seller Gorky Park plus other books in the Arkady Renko series. Gorky Park made a big impact in 1981 with its Moscow setting and idiosyncratic investigator and it … Read more...

Orion Publishing has seen a title’s ebook beat hardcover sales for the first time with Ben Aaronovitch’s supernatural crime novel Broken Homes. The book is the latest in the popular PC Peter Grant series of supernatural London-based crime novels. The title sold 8,064 ebooks in the week of publication compared with 5,194 hardbacks, according to … Read more...

A self-published author has turned down an offer from Amazon Publishing to take over her latest best-selling book and has revealed the advance offered was less than she made from the book’s first month of sales. Me, Cinderella? by Aubrey Rose was self-published in June for the Kindle and Nook formats and has sold very … Read more...

Amazon Publishing has signed up two successful self-published British authors covering the suspense thriller and romantic comedy genres. The Thomas & Mercer thriller and mystery imprint has reached an agented deal with author Mel Sharratt which includes republishing her Kindle best seller Taunting the Dead. The book was self-published by Sherratt  in 2011 and hit … Read more...