However beautiful it may be, there must be some doubt about the wisdom of a guidebook so vast that it might be most sensibly carried in a pram.

• For anyone about to give their book a snappy subtitle, Christopher Shea has some search results that might, well, change everything.

• It appears that stripper memoirs have become a genre – and also that "genre", in some hands, remains a dirtier word than any those memoirists might reach for.

• Might translation properly be a collective, cumulative endeavour?

• Who reads young adult fiction?