Pen Stuart writes: “‘Are Chinese people creative?’ – it depends if you mean in the Western Christian sense of creating something from nothing”. This was the best line in a fascinating
Andy Stubbings writes: I went to a talk on the future of publishing recently by Julius Wiedemann, the Design Editor at the art book publisher Taschen, at the Design Museum round the corner from our
Eloise Keightley: David Crystal, British Library The broadcaster John Humphrys remarked in 2007, “It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS vandals who are doing to our language
Joe Ballantyne: Whoops, by John Lanchester For my money, Whoops is far and away the best book I've read about the financial crisis. It’s clear, concise and at times even funny. John Lanchester
To mark the end of the year - as is now traditional on the blog - we asked people across the company to share something they'd enjoyed this year. We'll be publishing the responses on the blog between
Andrew Curry, London: Future Savvy, by Adam Gordon Future Savvy was the most stimulating futures book I read this year. I was put off at first; it sets itself up as a book about forecasting, and I
Oliver Wright, London: Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford & Orlanda Ruthven When we hear about those living on
To see out 2009 on the blog, we asked people from across the company to give us a short review of a movie, book, exhibition, or anything that struck them during the year. Here's what they sent
A guest post by Robert Stanier The start of a new cricket season (at least in Britain) seems a good moment to mention one of my surprises of the close season - that Bob Woolmer's huge book on the
