Blurbs — endorsements from authors like "this is exactly the book I was looking for" — have long been a fixture on the covers of books, intended to entice readers and lend credibility.

Nilanjana Roy’s endorsement of the long-overdue movement to ditch book blurbs (“Time to ditch gushing book blurbs?”, Opinion, Life & Arts, March 15) sadly contained only two negative example ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blurbs, those pithy paeans scattered across book covers like confetti, are controversial again. Recently ...