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Here is another scan of a vintage book I have had since I was a child. This is a collection…
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Around this time of year on the Solstice there are two things I like to do as a personal tradition-…
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I found this book in a charity shop. It’s a practical guide to alternative living in London from 1969/70 covering…
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Here are some scans from a 1970s craft book I got from my grandparents’ house.
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I got this late 70s/early 80s book from a charity shop a while ago. A lot of families in the…
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A couple of weeks ago I went to an academic conference in Bristol focused on the works of Diana Wynne…
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Last night, I saw Midsommar, a film I’ve had my eye on for a while. It’s received very mixed reviews…
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Margate is currently hosting a variety of art events related to T.S.Eliot (who wrote the Wasteland here almost a century…
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Knock Three Times is not a well-known book, which is a pity.
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I’ve made these printable bookplates, in both A4 and US Letter sizes. Four per page. They are for personal use…
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So I’m back in the UK. For good now. Most of this week has been taken up with house-hunting, arranging…
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I have a zine of articles about children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones (of Howl’s Moving Castle et al) I wrote…
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When I was in Japan I went to the Studio Ghibli Museum just outside of Tokyo. Sadly pictures were not allowed…
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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, based on the folk tale Tam Lin and Eliot’s Four Quartets, is one…
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I have been in Austria for a week and a half now for teaching work. I meant to update last…
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I’ve spent most of this afternoon sorting out my books, and making a pile of the unread ones. It turns…
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I haven’t found as many good charity shop items lately as over the summer, but there’s been the odd few…
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The next issue of Being Editors will be about C.S.Lewis and Phillip Pullman. As a sneak preview, and to give…
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve arranged the book reviews in groups loosely on the same theme. Here’s…
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Tomorrow I’m going on holiday to Copenhagen for 5 days, somewhere I’ve never been before. I’ve visited Iceland, Finland and…
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I bought some of these tiny 80th anniversary Penguin books the other day. Each book is around 50 pages long,…
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I actually attended this funeral/memorial for children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones over 2 years ago. I had meant to write…
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1) Operation Mincemeat- Ben Macintyre 2) The Pyramid- Ismail Kadare 3) The Mirror Maker- Primo Levi 4) The Third Miss…
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My university library had a massive stack of printing industry annuals from the 1890s through to the 20s. I always…
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At one point I was writing brief reviews on here with my thoughts about various books I’d been reading. I’ve…
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I still have a couple of these 22×25 cm / 8.5×9.5″ risograph prints based on the Bacchae by Euripedes left.…
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I recently watched this documentary about the Phantom Tollbooth, one of my favourite books when I was younger. (I still…
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Someone requested one of these risograph prints based on Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones (one of my all…
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We didn’t have a long time in Prague, so we didn’t get to sample that many places, but the ones…
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While I was at my grandparent’s place, I scanned some books. Here’s the Golden Hands Book of Crafts from the…
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So, long time, no see. I’ve been working very long hours at the day job, and I have also been…
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A couple of years ago I interviewed the children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones, my favourite writer growing up. I was…
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Not a great deal to report here, I haven’t read that much or seen many films because I’ve been busy…
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Here’s a short playlist I made of songs based on (good, enjoyable) books, with some short descriptions for people who…
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Here are some scans from a 1970s interior design book- House by Terrence Conran. Some of the stuff in it…
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One of my new year’s resolutions was to read an average of 2 books a week, and see an average…
