Legend of a Suicide, David Vann
Reviews'In the very end – always a surprising time – my father fixated on zablaglione.'An amazing read that completely...
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Do You Read Me?, Berlin
ReviewsOn a surprise Berlin weekend recently I made a beeline for the Do You Read Me store. And it...
Book club – Cormac McCarthy, The Road
ReviewsOur reviews of The Road now up on the main site - weird book that none of us particularly...
Little White Lies & Huck, Where The Wild Things Are issues
ReviewsOn the subject of things that make me happy, I finally rounded up both a copy of Little White...
Chicken soup and Michael Palin
ReviewsHome with ANOTHER cold, a pile of tissues, some chicken soup I made (you never need quite as many...
book shop planet earth
ReviewsMy boss sent me the link to The Book Depository Live. They've linked up with Google maps to show,...
Review of 2009
Reviews2009 - the year I got the book club website up and running, and started this blog. Originally I...
Augmented-reality books. The future?
ReviewsHow about this: augmented-reality books. The future? Have a look at 'video 1'. I love the way that some...
Secrets of the Universe book
ReviewsBook just out designed by my friend & colleague Avni - not one of my readers, or paying me...
how to arrange your library
ReviewsHow indeed. A current preoccupation, as we finally - after a year - have new shelves. So being a...
Paris finds
ReviewsBack in Paris for the weekend, and some nice things in the bookshop on rue de Bretagne round the...
Terra Incognita
ReviewsAs if it knew I wanted to read it, my copy of Sara Wheeler's Terra Incognita turned up, and...
when books become clutter
ReviewsSo my current preoccupation is shelves, as we are shortly, most excitingly, to get some for our no-longer-very-new house....
book club – The Jungle Book
ReviewsPoor neglected blog, this past week. Busy, busy. But we had book club last night. Read all about it...
Paris (for work) and Alias Grace
ReviewsBack from a work trip to Paris with Amanda. I liked these bookshelves I saw in Elle Deco magazine...
Halloween and e-readers
ReviewsIt's dark, there are strange folk about, it must be Halloween... (Some random guys I bumped in to outside the...
I want to … (2)
ReviewsDesign books as beautifully as Fernando Gutiérrez, ex-Pentagram, now doing his own thing. He often works with La Fabrica,...
I want to…
ReviewsDesign a book with a bright cloth cover and coloured blocking, with a belly band (I think that's the...
the world’s second-best bookshop?
ReviewsI heard about a bookshop in Buenos Aires that was supposed to be amazing, El Ateneo Grand Splendid, in...
Patagonia, and The Love of Stones
ReviewsIn Tierra del Fuego, where it's cold, a little bit bleak and very beautiful. I love it here. Want...
Booked out at the Frankfurt Book Fair
ReviewsSo here I am at Frankfurt with eyes slightly crossed and head buzzing after a day looking at every...
Weddings, hymnbooks and Sherman Alexie
ReviewsDown to Devon over the weekend for a wedding. Liked the type on the hymnbooks But what I really wanted...
Books’n’zines
ReviewsYesterday I went to the London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery; it was so amazing. Lots and...
livin’ in Vitra-land
ReviewsHow nice would it be to have bookshelves like these?
They're from the Vitra catalogue - went to buy...
a Deptford excursion
ReviewsWent to Deptford yesterday to visit a bookshop set up by the amazing Charlotte Troy, a friend of a...
raindrops keep fallin’
ReviewsA wet, dark September day & it feels like autumn. Even though I got soaked on the way home...