The Bibliophilic Blogger

Continuing my occasional series about the vanishing species of second hand bookshops, this is the Marchmont Bookshop at 39 Burton Street Lon...

It may not have much visibility in the literary blogosphere but Wales palpably exists and today the longlist for the Wales Book of the Year...

One of the unexpected pleasures of 2009 has been the appearance of the first volume of Samuel Beckett's letters covering the period 1929...

When you are reaching the end of a long period of research on a book with masses of highly-targeted reading, it's one of life's grea...

Although websites like Abe Books have transformed the way in which we track down out of print books (you can find virtually anything without...

Thirteen years after its first UK publication, my biography of Matthew Arnold has just appeared in Japanese which raises the interesting que...

The grand old man of English literary biography, Michael Holroyd, was holding forth  in The Guardian  at the weekend on the collapse of lite...