Monday, 3 April 2023

Josephine Tey Miss Pym Disposes

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  I suppose it was commercial publishers who invented the genre novel as something which could be packaged and sold as Crime, Mystery, Hor...
Friday, 31 March 2023

Martin Wolf The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

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  Martin Wolf was born in London in 1946, the first son of war-time Austrian and Dutch Jewish refugees. His is a powerful voice at The Fin...
Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Adolfo Kaminsky by Sarah Kaminsky

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  On the internet there are numerous photographs which testify to the love Sarah Kaminsky felt for her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, who died in ...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Do Good Books Get Published More by Luck than Judgment?

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I read two or three books each week, cover to cover, of which maybe half are recently published and mostly from mainstream, major publishers...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Running Scared: Dashes, Asterisks, Scare Quotes, Bunny Ears Quotes, Sensitivity Readers

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  Editors and publishers may not have lists but they know a word that they don’t want to see in print when they see it. One dodge employed...
Wednesday, 30 November 2022

David Graeber and David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity

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      Ten years ago I reviewed David Graeber’s Debt on this site and declared it my Book of the Year, though that is a fact I had forgo...
Tuesday, 1 November 2022

A Private Spy The Letters of John le Carré edited by Tim Cornwell

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  Browsing a provincial auction catalogue, some years ago, I noticed for sale an autograph letter signed David Cornwell on notepaper heade...