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When we met Lori Quinn, we knew right away she’s the type that takes to a challenge. She’s an avid reader, who delights in reading a great book for a few hours. But eReading? Why bother? That was all the incentive we needed to ask her to...

Thriller writer Nick Cutter first won over our hearts in 2014, with the release of The Troop, a terrifying tale of a troop of boys who are led into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip, only to have things go downhill fast. He’s been causing our...

In 2017, learn to love the old you. ‘Tis the season of the great resolution debate: To make them or not, to opt for their more benign “intentions” for the year, to pretend not to have that tiny prick of conscience for letting one year slide into...

Our booksellers are also booklovers; they do what they love and love what they do, and are the first in line to read the new releases every season. We asked them to tell us about their favourite fiction of 2016. They complained about having to choose just...

A Long Time Ago… On May 25, 1977, Star Wars opened in limited release. It changed everything. The original Star Wars was a B-movie made on a modest $11 million budget by 33 year-old George Lucas. It was expected to flop. Fast forward to the present day: When...

Hera’s blog tells us that "HERA LINDSAY BIRD is a poet from Wellington. She has an MA in poetry from the International Institute of Modern Letters where she won the 2011 Adam Prize for best folio. Her debut, self-titled book of poetry 'HERA LINDSAY BIRD' was published in...

When it comes to England’s favorite literary crime character, the answer is “elementary.” To coincide with the annual Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Kobo this summer did some sleuthing into the crime fiction proclivities of readers in the UK. First, we surveyed* UK readers to ascertain...

Even as Kobo’s head bookseller it can be tough to keep on top of the latest and greatest books. At some point years ago I fell behind and despaired of ever catching up. So when I talk about the best things I read in the past year...

Sometimes, Booklovers need to think outside the box... (source) While there are many advantages to reading digitally, one of them is somewhat unexpected. It allows you to live differently with books. In The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, the bestselling book on decluttering, author Marie Kondo says...

I often wonder where exactly I’d be if the right books had not found me at the right time. I’d like to think that I’d be okay no matter what, but the truth is that certain passages from certain books have been like life preservers for me...