Another week, another links round-up:

• Tumbleweeds roll through London Book Fair on opening day
• Canadians face very real prospect of missing fair entirely
• Americans (and a very angry Denise Bukowski) trapped at home
• Penguin Australia commits the mother of all publishing misprints
• Andrew Wylie pierces you with his laser-beam eyes
• Why J.K. Rowling ain’t voting Tory
• Joseph Boyden discusses his finances