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A plague on all your books: Great works written in isolation
By Adam Douglas, senior specialist at Peter Harrington Many writers need isolation to get their creative juices flowing. Virginia Woolf reckoned that women writers of her generation simply needed a...
“Who is Sylvia, what is she, That all our scribes commend her?” Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare and Company
This International Women’s Day, Peter Harrington celebrates Sylvia Beach, the trailblazing bookseller and publisher who helped shape the literary landscape of her age. A century ago, she opened a...
The Town That Was Mad: Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood
Considering how long Dylan Thomas was cogitating the essence of Under Milk Wood (from 1931, at 17-years-old), it is paradoxically jarring to know how accelerated and chaotic its near-completion...
Mary Westmacott, the real Agatha Christie
by Andy Stewart MacKay Thanks to her hugely successful detective fiction, and the many film and TV adaptations of her work, Agatha Christie has perhaps done more to define a particular kind of...
Illustrated Inscriptions
While books inscribed by authors or illustrators cross our desks almost daily, more unusual are inscriptions which include an original illustration or pictorial signature. Some writers are known for...
“The great and awful book of human folly”: Charles Mackay’s Popular Delusions
The South Sea Bubble, a Scene in ‘Change Alley in 1720, Edward Matthew Ward, 1847 By Hector Kociak In modern Britain, where bold and successful inroads upon public credulity seem to be a daily...
Enter The World of Jazz
A little over a hundred years ago they asked “What is jazz”? To which Louis Armstrong made the timeless reply, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know”. But a perhaps more troubling question
still is how do you collect jazz? Our experts have put togeher a remarkable gathering of 50 items which evoke the ephemeral moment and improvisatory spirit of jazz.
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