We've recently posted unique videos for three of our authors – Lee Henshaw, Nick Griffiths and Josie Henley-Einion - and now the first two are up on the Waterstone's website, along with full profiles and great question and answer interviews. To view just click on Lee and Nick - both are brilliant and you have to see them (involving a self-interview and melon respectively).
Josie's is to follow shortly, but while you're there make sure you place an order for the great books. Waterstones.com has been a breath of fresh air since its launch and from all reports has exceeded expectations. We look forward to working with them a lot more over the coming months and onwards.
Tom
What's wrong with Amazon?
Have you tried The Book Depository?
Posted by: Lee Henshaw | 24 April 2008 at 03:30 PM
Good list Lee. Well I'm boycotting Amazon at the mo or I would post it there. I'll see if I can post it at Waterstone's.
Posted by: Josie | 23 April 2008 at 09:03 PM
Nice one Josie.
Let me know when that review goes live and I'll link to it from my blog.
Tom, thanks for getting Waterstones to add the video. I had a chocolate milkshake at the Eagle Bar and Diner off Oxford St today with the author John Mole - his new book, I Was a Potato Oligarch, is out soon and I'd recommend it as highly as the Eagle's milkshares, which are the best in town. He thought that I was being interviewed in the film by my brother...
Sorry we've not spoken for a while - I've had my head up my arse with work.
I spoke to the editor of The Book Depository today and he's asked me to provide me with a list of my top ten books for a feature.
I've got seven so far.
Big Sur and The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
One People by Guy Kennaway
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan.
What do you think of the list?
Posted by: Lee Henshaw | 23 April 2008 at 08:34 PM
Not long until we go fully public - and we are planning to give some beta keys out this week (you heard it here first!) so sign up if you want to look around.
Posted by: Kieron | 23 April 2008 at 07:09 PM
Hey Kieron, I joined BookRabbit last week but haven’t had a chance to upload any bookshelf photos yet. I’ve just done a review of Queer Fish (haven’t yet read Harrison Dextrose though chomping at the bit for that one). I clicked the link you gave and it asked me to log in, so just in case anyone else hasn’t registered, this is what my review says:
"Quite appropriate that my first review for bookrabbit should be this one. It blew me away. When I was reading it I felt like I was stoned. I was never quite sure which bits were real and which bits fantasy or hallucinations or whether I was meant to know. The talking fanny tickled me pink. I realised how clever the author was as this could work for the American meaning of the word as well as the British. It’s a very quick read, but don’t read it in public as the snorts and guffaws might disturb the people around you."
Posted by: Josie | 23 April 2008 at 04:35 PM
Not to be outdone - both posted prominently on BookRabbit.com ;)
http://www.bookrabbit.com/catalogue/detail/bookid/3268539
http://www.bookrabbit.com/catalogue/detail/bookid/3352094
Best
Kieron
Posted by: Kieron | 23 April 2008 at 04:19 PM
wh-hoo! will go and read the biogs (have already seen the videos but they warrant a second viewing). Can't wait to see my mugshot on the Waterstone's site. :-)
Posted by: Josie | 23 April 2008 at 01:00 PM