The Bibliophilic Blogger

Anthony Gormley's installation at Crosby Beach, Liverpool, Another Place , known locally as The Iron Men was meant to be removed in 20...

John Banville's new novel Ancient Light, which comes with a perfectly intelligent and sensible blurb carries also on the front cover ...

The paperback of my book about the British poets of the First World War, The Red Sweet Wine of Youth , is published at the end of the mont...

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah  in these days when publishers are jumpily fashion conscious to risk a seemingly conservative title ...

Ceaseless rain but the flower books say that this Cuckoo Flower (aka Lady's Smock and Milkmaid; cardamine pratensis ) is "damp-lo...

I have just read a short but very effective piece in the latest New York Review of Books  by Jonathan Mirsky on the scandal of the London Bo...

Thank you to the Gladstone Library for making me think about liberalism (with a mandatory small 'l' in these Coalition times).  Here...