Reviewers don't really need free books, says One Minute Book Reviews' Janice Harayda. Oh yes we do, says Literary Saloon. But if they fall on you, they can really hurt, says Rob Chilver, whose life apparently looks something like this.
• Oscar Wilde, hot young literary thing, with bonus extreme nastiness from Ambrose Bierce.
• Simon Kernick puts that "Dan Brown" cover into context.
• In the Ladybird Oliver Cromwell lurks the monkey of propaganda.
• Nicholson Baker's predictable but enjoyable extended filleting of the Kindle appears to have got a whole flock of Edward Champion's goats.
