The Bibliophilic Blogger
"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.
Monday, 17 February 2014
Biography and the Need to Know
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Having just read John Cornwell's biography of John Henry Newman, the Victorian theologian and prose stylist (much admired by James Joy...
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Remembering Bruce Chatwin
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of Bruce Chatwin and his former school, Marlborough College, was the venue for a two-day colloq...
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
A Short View of Mandela
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In 2001 my novel A Short Book About Love was published by Seren. This is chapter 23. We have read so much about Nelson Mandela in the last ...
Monday, 18 November 2013
Rip Van Winkle Awakes to a Brave New World
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Copious apologies to readers of this blog who have noticed a word-famine or long sleep over the past couple of months. I have been very b...
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Huxley in Oxford: The Condemned Playground
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Peter Wood from New York addresses a session on Huxley's ideas in teaching I have just returned from a very interesting conference...
Monday, 26 August 2013
Do People Still Buy Poetry?
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Charlotte Mew The news that the estimable CB Editions run by Charles Boyle is planning to wind itself up next year has been greeted with...
Monday, 29 July 2013
A Poetry Reading in Liverpool
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If you are in Liverpool on 16th August I look forward to meeting you
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