Inspiring Older Readers
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart posted on 29 Dec 2016
I guess that all obsessives have their iconic destinations
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The Last Book posted on 15 Dec 2016
I would be reluctant to call this a photographic essay because in many ways it doesn’t have a narrative arc that gives each photograph a role or a purpose.
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Revolution posted on 09 Dec 2016
It’s hard to imagine a more difficult task to set yourself than producing a fable of revolution without using much more than a handful of words
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Silent Quarter posted on 08 Dec 2016
It’s no secret that new artists and writers struggle to get their work published – however creative and accomplished they are.
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Veering North-Easterly posted on 04 Dec 2016
Veering North-Easterly : Poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Paintings by Gillian Crossley-Holland This elegant little gem of a book brings together former hu
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The Night Bookmobile posted on 27 Nov 2016
This idiosyncratic and unsettling graphic novel first appeared in a serialised form in The Guardian newspaper ..
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by Harry Clarke posted on 21 Nov 2016
The extraordinary imagination of a writer like Edgar Allan Poe needs an illustrator with a mind to match.
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Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores posted on 13 Nov 2016
It always seems to me that American bibliophiles lead the way in celebrating and mythologising their bookshops
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Classic Penguin: Cover To Cover posted on 08 Nov 2016
Penguin Books have been at the cutting edge of paperback design since their inception.
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Jock McFadyen: A Book About A Painter posted on 24 Oct 2016
McFadyen is, as near as damn it, a contemporary of mine in terms of age ...