In the first of a new series detailing his adventures in bookworld, the author and book dealer recalls an exciting discovery at the Hay festival You can tell where you are in the Hay festival pecking order by when your event is scheduled. Mine an hour's chat with the Guardian's Claire Armitstead was on a Tuesday morning at 10am, the day after the bank holiday weekend at which Bill Bryson ...

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A £6,000 Auden bargain

Our competition giving common names to 10 rare UK species means we now have a cultural connection that will help their conservation cause Queen's executioner beetle wins species naming competition See the full list of winners It's the most successful exercise in crowd-sourcing I've ever seen.

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Ten British species now have an identity we care about | George Monbiot

A Google-backed research project is to map out the relationship between location and literature, visualising works related to a specific era or place using Google Earth . A joint project between the Open University , the University of Southampton and the University of California at Berkeley , Google Ancient Places will let users search for books related to specific geographic location during a ...

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Google puts $1m into academic research projects for digitised books

Adventurer Ben Fogle reveals his favourite books It's a very revealing programme, With Great Pleasure (Tuesdays, Radio 4, 11.30am) or maybe Ben Fogle is just a very open person. He certainly has an honest complexion. The adventurer launched the new season with a collection of books that included Enid Blyton, Barbara Kingsolver, Joe Simpson and WE Bowman.

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Radio review: With Great Pleasure

It's called The Ark and, yes, it's for storing your books.

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The bookcase you'll want to live in

William Fotheringham welcomes two cycling books that are so much more than 'bike porn' My first bike was a Hetchins. For most people that has no resonance, but there are those who understand.

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It's All About the Bike by Robert Penn | Book review

Book disappeared 12 years ago from Durham University, resurfacing when Raymond Scott showed it to library in US An antiques dealer who tried to sell a rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio has been found guilty of handling stolen goods and removing stolen property from the UK. But a jury at Newcastle crown court cleared Raymond Scott, 53, of stealing the book, which has been described as part ...

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Antiques dealer guilty of handling stolen Shakespeare First Folio

Summer's here, with free theatre in Greenwich and Docklands, plus a diverse range of shows around the country. Have we missed anything

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Lyn Gardner's theatre tips

Josh Lacey on an intiguing series of short books on wildlife What happens if a one-humped camel humps a two-humped camel?

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Camel by Robert Irwin, Lion by Deirdre Jackson | Book review

Serial book thief William Jacques stole books worth £40,000 from a London library, a court hears A Cambridge graduate who stole more than £1m worth of rare books during his career as a professional book thief was today found guilty of stealing £40,000's worth of books from a celebrated library. William Jacques, nicknamed "Tome Raider" after stealing hundreds of rare books in the late 1990s, drew ...

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'Tome raider' jailed again for stealing antique books