Booktopia's Ben Hunter gives us his thoughts on the books he has been reading this month. Read more

The day after I finished Sebastian Faulks’s astonishing new novel I sat down to a few episodes of Mad Men. In one of his many moments of boozy insight, Don Draper offers this pearl of advertising wisdom to his protégé Peggy Olson: ‘You are the product. You feeling something. That’s what sells.’ This quote momentarily shattered my nostalgia-fuelled swoonfest as I realised that this is exactly ho... Read more

VINTAGE Books have chosen a wonderful way to celebrate their 21st Birthday. They have produced a rainbow of colourful new editions of the best fiction in their impressive collection. These are some of the best, most talked about and most lauded novels published in the last 21 years. It is an astonishing list. Novels by Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, A. S. Byatt,  ... Read more