Tag Archives: Books

The curatorial twitch

My dad was book mad. He owned a couple of thousand books, mostly non-fiction. He was an old-school, working class, self-taught polymath, a bus conductor-know-all (I’ve written about his dictionaries before). And he had this habit. He would snip cuttings from newspapers and magazines. Almost daily he’d snip a story of some import and file [...]

“My wife wants a Kindle. She’s dead to me now…”

Kindle. Segway for books?

Xmas presents we liked 1: Carl Hiaasen’s Flush

Things I love…

A new book from Adam Wishart

Books and bombs

Sophisticated kids’ fiction

Will Self in The Wood Between The Worlds

Things were different in the 1950s