Happy San Jordi’s Day!
It was for a good reason, three in fact, that I chose 23 April to launch WritingRedux last year. San...
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
The whole intricate plot of Ruiz Zafón's Shadow of the Wind begins with his father taking him to this labyrinthine...
Riding the spine of a book
The book as a kind of flying broomstick or galloping horse taking the boy into story land.
A place to get lost in
My idea of a bookshop or library to get lost in ... though not exclusively. I also love some of...
Basilicata bibliomotocarro
Antonio La Cava, a retired school teacher, converted a quintessential Italian vehicle, the three-wheeler micro-van, into a travelling library.
For...
Lettres de Mon Moulin – Daudet
These charming children's illustrations of Daudet turned up at a flea-market, and I have several versions including this selection of...
Culling of books …
I sometimes feel like this when we go to the flea market in Geneva and survey a lifetime's worth of...
Book as mirror I
A great riposte, of course, and true to a large extent. Having dismissed a book, it sometimes happens that I...
My publisher, falsely so called…
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
I loved this drawn out account of Thoreau's dealings with a publisher wanting...
On the Elizabethans and book learning
I have no idea if this is a fair appraisal of the Elizabethan stance on book learning, but I have...
Intimate and familiar
A striking idea, that in being true, a book will feel intimate and familiar to all men. Â 'True' surely means...
5 years old today!
Dear Kind Readers,
When we launched WritingRedux on Shakespeare's and Cervantes' birthday five years ago, we had the freedom to...
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