Ok, apart from being hot cross bunnies with this weather (28 degrees and fur; not a good combo) there is a definite buzz in the office this week as a few people have been rabbiting about us, or rather, Twittering. It’s great to see there is some excitement about our return! So basically, if you’re not getting the latest Tweets from the Rabbit, then you are seriously barking (book lovers’ site or pet shop? Discuss). Anyway, what I’m trying to say (badly) is follow us on Twitter and become a BookRabbit fan on our Facebook page. DO keep up!

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Well BookRabbiters, we’re all feeling pretty terrified excited here at the Warren as launch day approaches! A quick round-up of what’s been happening in the office this week – we’ve begun some user testing and the tech team are painstakingly working their way through the site stamping on any nasty bugs. Design are still fine-tuning the overall look and feel of the site, while the rest of us are editing the content and making sure there aren’t any bloopers.

We would still very much welcome your eyes and (rabbit) ears to spot any problems after launch. We’re doing our best to make the new site a lean-mean-book-lovers’-machine, but it will be your day-to-day use of it that will uncover any hidden niggles – so don’t be shy in letting us know through the usual channels. Continue Reading »

Thanks for all your comments and emails which we enjoyed reading over the weekend – it’s good to know you’re all keen to see BookRabbit spring back into action. We’re all working hard here at the Warren to make it happen.

The design team have been busy re-designing the homepage, so when you guys arrive in your thousands on D-Day it will look and feel a little fresher with some cool little layout changes, but the hardened BookRabbit fans among you will still feel right at home. Ooh, and there’s been some tweaking of the logo, take a look, as we’d like to know what you think…

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Hello and welcome back, actually, some of you have never been away (thanks for sticking with us) it’s us who have had a little break. But we’re pleased to say BookRabbit will be re-launching soon, and we’re looking forward to the future with added bounce! 

As some of you may have heard, a lot has been happening behind the scenes at BookRabbit, and we’ve been off air while we try and sort things out. We thought first of all it would be useful to set up a Q&A on our blog to answer the most commonly asked questions you’ve been asking, so here are the top 5, but please send us more questions, and comments, if we haven’t covered them here…

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I said, when bemoaning the utter impotence of John Banville’s The Sea on this blog some time ago, that I’d try to read as many other Booker Prize winners as possible. It’s been slow progress, dear reader. Slow progress. There’s been twittering to do, Ashes all-time XI’s to compile, Thatcherite itinerary’s to report, that sort of thing, getting in the way.

The novelist looks forward to her appearance at this year’s Hay festival and explains why ‘for months I’ve been apologising that The Little Stranger has no lesbian in it’