“The world’s No 1 bestseller” ( Observer Magazine, last week) said James Patterson “outsells JK Rowling, John Grisham and Dan Brown put together”. Patterson has sold 150 million books, but JK Rowling alone has sold 400 million.
Our report on more bloodshed in the world of literary criticism (”Endangered species under further threat”, Books, last week) was wrong to accuse the Independent on Sunday of abbreviating its books coverage; the paper has just appointed Katy Guest as its new literary editor. And far from being made redundant, Alan Taylor, doyen of Scotland’s literary landscape, is still at the Sunday Herald and still editing the Scottish Review of Books . Apologies all round. Link to both
