As far as I can tell, I have now got all the Shakespeare titles in Arden 2 -- having recently found a Love's Labour's Lost and now a Pericles and assuming there is no separate edition of The Sonnets. If I want The Two Noble Kinsmen I need to turn to Arden 3 (or possibly 4 ( Read more... )

I noticed the Muybridge exhibition had a warning about nudity - in photos the size of a matchbook. Some things are clearly sensitive.

Today I'd planned to see the Watercolours exhibition at t'Tate and may be the Bridget Riley, plus a visit to Oxfam and Hurlingham Books in search of copies of The Thirty-Nine Steps. I figure, what with watercolours ( Read more... )

This is interesting: Let's Have a Local Bookshop Year, in addition to the suggestion that you buy a book to give to someone rather than the giveaway which has meant publishers are producing books to give away for free (loss leaders?), which doesn't benefit booksellers or authors (and not publishers, for that matter ( Read more... )

A day trip to London - a painless trip to the Whitechapel Art Gallery; train to Victoria then District to Aldgate East rather than the five changes suggested on Travel Direct. (Why did I not remember that Aldgate East is adjacent to the gallery? I wonder if I've always used the wrong exit despite explicit signage ( Read more... )

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I've been to some odd secondhand bookshops in my time, but this might be a new favourite. There's a pile of Nortons - some of which I have - and some Bradleys - I have not - so a return visit may be engaged upon. Though too late for them to be of use. I settled for Sea of Sargasso in hope I have not although it turns out not to be 1970s, so I was ( Read more... )

Today I decided to hang spring cleaning and, after waiting for postie and the parcel that didn't come (want my Universal Horrors now) I decided to head out to Rochester and the alleged largest secondhand bookshop in Britain (which Barter Books would dispute). The start wasn't good - apparent the station are experimenting with limiting the opening ( Read more... )

I clearly blew the mind of the woman at Oxfam books:

• Alison Assiter, Pornography, Feminism and the Individual
  
• Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising
  
• Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds), The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880-1900
  

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I'd foolishly thought I could catch the 9.06 train, but clearly that was over optimistic so I feel back on 9.36 - only to have a minor panic and look like I was going to miss that as well. I had five minutes to get from the busstop to the platform, and both ticket machines were in use. Fortunately the window was clear, but then my ticket wouldn't ( Read more... )

Let it be recorded: Today has been a good day.

I've been feeling a bit trapped, and the endless coypu-editing, camp or otherwise, is getting to me (do experts not know the titles of the books they are discussing? can no one follow Routledge NuStyle?). A jolly, an expotition was in order.


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