The Bibliophilic Blogger
"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Losing Israel: Jasmine Donahaye
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There's a delightful bird (illustrated on the jacket of this book) called the Palestine sunbird. Or is it? An Israeli twitcher wou...
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Square Eyes: Rosie Millard's New Novel
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Rosie Millard at the launch To Soho for the launch of Rosie Millard's highly entertaining new novel The Square at the House of S...
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Why Do You Blog?
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Looking at the date of my last blog entry this might seem a question over which a little irony has been scattered. I do find my posts seem ...
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Talking About Edward Thomas 17 June
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I will be talking to Jean Moorcroft Wilson, author of a new biography of Edward Thomas, at an event at the London Review Bookshop on 17th ...
Sunday, 19 April 2015
Rupert Brooke is Dead
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The grave of Rupert Brooke on Skyros This Thursday (23rd April) is (in addition to being Shakespeare's birthday and mine) the 100th ...
Sunday, 22 March 2015
H is for Hare
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The first paperback edition 1974 As an article in today's Observer reports, nature writing is the current non-fictional vogue – th...
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Basil Bunting Award 2015 winner announced
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Basil Bunting The 2015 Basil Bunting Award for poetry was announced today (Friday 20th March) at the inaugural Newcastle Poetry Festival...
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