Random house are kindly giving away some free science fiction and fantasy ebooks over at Suvudu. Some pretty good stuff too, I particularly recommend Naomi Novik’s “His Majesty’s Dragon” for some alternate Napoleonic history with added dragons…loved that book and I still have the rest of the series sitting on my to read list.
Looks to [...]
Neil Gaiman is currently touring to promote his new Children’s novel “The Graveyard Book” and at each venue is reading a different chapter.
The readings are being recorded and posted here so that the entire reading of the book can be watched for free.
I don’t know much about the book but I’ve never been dissapointed by [...]
Part of the governments plans to tackle obesity is a to concentrate more on cooking skills for school children, which will ultimately mean compulsory practical cooking lessons in secondary schools from 2011.
With this in mind they have released a free cookery book aimed at 11-year-olds, which can either be downloaded and printed or hard copies [...]
Following on from his last giveaway, where he made his novel American Gods available to read for free online for a limited period comes this new promotion.
This time it’s the turn of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, which is the book I voted for last time as my choice of books to give someone who had never [...]
The Biology of Mind is a fascinating and very readable book about neuroscience which has been made available for free online by the author. It’s based on lecture notes for a course that has recently been taught and provides a very nice introduction to a subject I knew little about but am very interested in.
You [...]
I’ve been usng Wowio.com for a while now as they had a nice service which provided free PDF downloads of ebooks and comics with embedded advertising and user information so you didn’t go spreading them around. It worked well and they have a decent selection of books and comics with quite a few very good [...]
Just one quick post whilst I have enough coal to keep the internet running here.
For those of you who didn’t sign up for the Tor ebook giveaway to promote the quite spangly new site, they have now made all the ebooks available to download until Sunday July 27th.
Go and grab them quickly before they disappear.
There [...]
Being a huge fan of both pulp fiction (the writing kind not the movie) and audio drama, I really can’t resist the lure of a full cast audio drama of a Conan the Barbarian story.
You can find most of the Conan stories online as ebooks, along with the rest of Robert E. Howard’s writing as [...]
OK…nursing advice is probably not what you were expecting to read here but I just had to post something about these books.
I’m not sure what strange thread I was following which led me to the free ebook “emergency nursing unscrewed” over at impactednurse.com but I’m quite glad I ended up there as it’s an interesting [...]
Another very interesting looking book being provided for free download.
It’s nice to see more and more authors fighting obscurity rather than piracy.
How do you start a movement with a marker pen? What’s the connection between the nun who invented disco, and file sharing? How did a male model messing with disco records in New York [...]
