• If you're giving books as gifts, do you have to play nice?

• The novels of Ayn Rand as a fulfilment the predictions of the Communist Manifesto.

• The bonkbuster bounces back.

• How TS Eliot snapped up Ted Hughes.

• And finally, a question: I'm pretty sure that the name of the baddie in Avatar, Colonel Miles Quaritch, has a literary inspiration. But is James Cameron paying tribute to H Rider Haggard, or taking revenge for a particularly expensive antiquarian buy?