Jane Austen finally arrives on the £10 note so everyone should be happy, right? Well, not quite … In other news, J. K. Rowling’s habit of writing on anything but paper continues, an Argentinean artist uses banned books to build the Parthenon, the Twilight Zone
With Netflix’s new adaptation of Death Note due out soon, we take a look at the trailer before heading to a maid cafe for foreigners and taking a walk down Tokyo’s other anime street. We also have a chat about manga and light novels that
We’re a video games podcast aren’t we? Maybe? It depends on the day I guess? This week we have a plateful of anime-themed gaming for your taste buds. First up we have the release of the rarest thing in gaming – a new Nintendo franchise
With new ideas about what the Voynich Manuscript actually is, disarmingly obvious sanity for libraries from Sydney, and more strange words added to the Oxford English Dictionary it’s just another day at the office for us. Oh, and we kind of have a quiz about
Apparently changing the name from The Million Pound Drop to The 100K Drop has nothing to do with Brexit the devaluation of the pound. In other news, the feud between AMC and Frank Darabont gets a little worse and it’s now a federal crime in
Everything’s backwards this week as we start off with our featured anime – Parasyte: The Maxim (Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu) part 2, Gundam Reconguista in G and Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no
We’ve got a smorgasbord of strangeness this week with the Jeremy Corbyn colouring book, Anthony Burgess on pornography, DILF romances and eating books (literally). We also take a look at twenty allegedly helpful advisory tweets for writers that have been compiled into a “helpful” list.
We’re a man down and suffering from the heat this week, but still we soldier on against history students, Shakesperian Ghostbusters, Pissing Pugs and “the ultimate therapeutic experience” (according to the guy who took the photos). Our featured book is Warlock Holmes: A Study in
While Grr Martin continues to work on the new Game of Thrones novel, a charity shop is inundated with copies of the Da Vinci Code, Helen Fielding wins a pig, Theresa May is likened to a certain Harry Potter character and Neil Gaiman volunteers to
Bill Clinton is teaming up with James Patterson to write a thriller. Meanwhile a Harry Potter prequel is stolen and James Joyce’s sexy letters to Nora Barnacle have been discovered. We also go through the Telegraph’s list of books that will allegedly change your bedroom