Russian tales and legends
There is a dark-forested haunting element to the illustrations in this French rendition of Russian stories. They are part of...
Tell stories, ask questions
David Boyle teases out the limitations of measurement and statistics in capturing the complexities of human happiness and well-being. I...
Tales from Australia and Oceania
This book cover and related illustrations are from a wonderful old French series of tales and stories from around the...
Rowing about on a voyage of discovery
The lovely word ‘imram’ is, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, old Irish for ‘rowing about’ or ‘voyaging’. In its plural...
Seeing your own absurdity
Elizabeth Goudge is, in my view, one of the best children’s writers of all time, and I discovered her as...
The dog who understood
This mongrel, scooped up off the streets, in Vasily Grossman's imagined story of the real creature who was the first...
The assignations of stories
An interesting way to present the connectedness of stories and their meeting points, and curious about the meeting at corners...
New year’s readolutions
Happy new year!  What will you be reading?  What do you wish to read? Feel free to send me a...
A box of mysteries
A novel reason for taking fairy tales seriously. Beyond their charm and imagination, they have an added bonus of reminding...
The components of story
This idea keeps coming back to me, and even though I question the components featured, intuitively it sounds right. Another...
Silence or story?
Ivan is the protagonist of Grossman's novel Everything Flows, apparently modelled on his brother in law. This is an account...
Street stories
The street as a fount of stories, conveying the detail and complexity of human lives, even those which may appear...
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