Book Club 2: If on a winter’s night a traveller
If on a winter’s night a traveller – Italo Calvino “Il faut choisir: vivre ou raconter.” [“We must choose: to live or to tell.”] The protagonist of Sartre’s existentialist classic Nausea tells us we...
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I am usually bored by the limply self-evident way in which people, having re-read a much loved book, say, “I take something different from it each time”, or, worse, “The book has changed with me as...
View ArticleBookshops of London and other places
Down a small side street off the King’s Road near Sloane Square there is a small and perfectly proportioned bookshop. It’s cool shady shelves and rich hardback stock is like a glen of sleeping dragons...
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