A year ago Harry Eastwood, food writer and presenter for Channel 4's "Cook Yourself Thin", moved to Paris on a mission: to prove that you can create full-flavour French dishes with substantially fewer calories than is traditional. "I've been perched up seven floors in a tiny flat, inviting locals to taste my French food,...

Chris Moon and Yasmin al Naib, filmmakers from the National Film and Television School (NFTS), have been announced as the overall winners of the third annual Book Video Awards, run by The Bookseller and Random House.

After just over a month of voting via Foyles.co.uk, the award's retail partner's website, the pair's...

World beater

Once the world Curly Wurly-stretching champion (with a record of three feet in three minutes) and this year a participant in the largest gathering of men with moustaches, Craig Glenday makes an ideal editor-in-chief for Guinness World Records. "I know very little about lots of things and mentally am...

Proof that the sales rep is still an essential cog in the lifecycle of the book comes in the form of Kevin Duffy. Having worked as a rep for over 20 years for the likes of Headline, Kogan Page, and now Anova, Duffy is adamant that no hub, catalogue or computer can replace the pitch of a passionate salesman. "Even the most high-tech laptops...