Welcome to the BookAddiction blog, full of notes, hints and tips about books, book collecting, bookselling and a fair smattering of gossip and comment too.  There are posts about particular genres of collecting, such as vintage school girl stories and leading crime thriller writers like The Fabulous Peter Cheyne, as well as more generic information for book collectors.

• No Jacket Required? A Book Collector’s Guide to Identifying Fake Dust Jackets
• A Guide to the terms used by book collectors and book dealers to describe the parts of a book and their condition
• Why collect Uncorrected Bound Proofs and Advance Reader copies

Some of our own favourite authors and illustrators are featured on the blog- see this feature on the vintage crime novelist R Austin Freeman and some of the most talented book designers and illustrators, like Talwin Morris, Arthur Rackham, Alice May Cook and Bip Pares. Themed, regular posts include Lost Between the Leaves, which records some of the more surprising and interesting things that previous readers have left, lost or forgotten, between the leaves and pages of books.