Wednesday 2 December 2009

Reading's best art and design books of 2009

Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide (in Wheeler Centre green!)

Inside Story has great expectations of the Wheeler Centre, as Peter Clarke explains.

Listen to him talk to our Director Chrissy Sharp and Head of Programming, Michael Williams, on the day we announced our name.

Huge amounts have, predictably, been written about US Republican Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rouge, since its release last month.

The Huffington Post is already calling it a "gag line", but just two weeks after publication in the US, its sales have already gone platinum.

There's been Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, now there's Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

But not everyone can see the value in what the LA Times calls the "halloweenification of Jane Austen".

Co-author of Philadelphia book publisher Quirk Books' latest effort, Ben H. Winters, tells the Huffington Post how to collaborate with a corpse.