The Little Professor has teased out how Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger tweaks the gothic tradition: "This novel's dead don't move in their sleep, let alone walk."

- The former Waterstone's head buyer Scott Pack has manned a bookstall at a school fete, coming away with a possibly mischievous suggestion for his former employers.

- A brave US bookseller has identified their seven types of customer, all of whom would probably join the melee provoked above. (Via.)

- Christopher Reid has demonstrated the poet, editor and critic Ian Hamilton's mastery of "you".

- A number of useful verbs have not, contrary to reports, gone missing.