The Infinite Ideas blog

We write on a variety of subjects and often post exclusive ideas by our bestselling authors. We publish a diverse list and our blog reflects this so if you don’t find a post that interests you today check back later in the week and you’ll probably find something that takes your fancy. Happy reading.


2,221 forgotten poets of the First World War

3 December 2013 by in Book publishing

by Richard Burton, author of A strong song tows us Liam Guilar’s thorough and thoroughly positive review of A strong song tows us in Lady Godiva and Me is a delight. Towards the end of his review Guilar raises some interesting points about how poets’ reputations are built and how the fact that they (sometimes) …
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NEW children’s adventure finale: The Oak Lord by Catherine Cooper

29 November 2013 by in Book publishing

On 2nd December Infinite Ideas will publish The Oak Lord by Catherine Cooper. This fifth Jack Brenin book – a children’s adventure finale – belongs to a series of books that would be completely at home on a shelf next to C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, Tolkien’s The Hobbit, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and …
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Bunting at Tom Pickard’s trial

27 November 2013 by in Basil Bunting and A strong song tows us

by Richard Burton, author of A strong song tows us Liam Guilar, in his review of A strong song tows us, was sorry that I missed one of his favourite Basil Bunting stories: “It’s a fine book. There are a couple things I was surprised to miss: one of my favorite Bunting stories is about …
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From getting ahead in business to beating cancer, could one gene hold the key?

21 November 2013 by in Lifestyle

Infinite Ideas author (ex-Burger King CEO Barry Gibbons) today shocked the scientific establishment by unveiling work that claims to prove that one gene is responsible for success in a variety of endeavours. Without a microscope, any scientific training and through experiments on only one animal – himself – Gibbons has managed to isolate the elusive …
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Book publishers and the world of apps

20 November 2013 by in Book publishing, Business and finance

On 23rd November 2013 the BBC will air the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, Day of the Doctor, and it’s interesting to read how various publishers are producing apps – to cash in – as Dr Who fever sweeps the nation (see the Guardian article here). You wonder how many people will spend £1.99 …
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Bunting’s saqis

15 November 2013 by in Basil Bunting and A strong song tows us

by Richard Burton, author of A strong song tows us I was grateful for Matthew Sperling’s positive review of A strong song tows us in the Literary Review and like him hope for a revival of interest in this great poet. I should clarify my position on one point that Sperling raises, not because it represents …
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