Columbus newsround

Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon has made it to the 2009 shortlist of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize (The award is open to outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine). In the Times:

This volume charts the lives of nine hypochondriacs, including Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Proust and Charles Darwin. Tom Hicks in Metro praised its unusual theme, the “lesser-known links between hypochondria and creativity”. Kevin Jackson in The Sunday Times thought Dillon makes a fairly convincing case that the hypochondriacs “used the condition of fragile health as a means of living their lives in productive ways”. (Megan Walsh)

The winner will be announced next November 4.

Jane Eyre as an example of online reads in the Edmonton Journal:

Amogh Agrawal, a first-year bachelor of science student at the University of Alberta, estimated his basketful would cost $700, including many--he pulled out the novel Jane Eyre-- he would gladly skim online. (Elise Stolte)

Steph & Tony Investigate! posts a second article about Jane Eyre. The edition discussed is the one illustrated by Dame Darcy.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre