Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity – to a commenter who tickles our fancy… It was a great month for comments, if not sunshine. How else are you going to ventilate your opinions when stuck indoors? There were some ... Read More...
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We imagine that this might be one of our more popular book club choices, as this month we’re giving away 12 copies of Robert Macfarlane's fantastic new book to members of our Dabbler Book Club and our esteemed, yet highly secretive League of Dabblers…if you haven't yet joined up, now ... Read More...
The lucky winners of the latest Dabbler Book Club selection... Free books. What's not to like? We had a dozen copies of Mark Haddon's latest novel The Red House to give away to Dabbler Book Club members (find out more here). Here's how The Guardian introduced it: The Red House is a closely observed domestic drama that ... Read More...
It's lovely giveaway time again, and that means we've got a teetering pile of 12 copies of a rather popular new book to give away to members of our Dabbler Book Club and our esteemed, yet highly secretive League of Dabblers... Unless you've been living in a cave it's unlikely that ... Read More...
Thanks to our friends at Picaor, we've got 5 copies of a great new F Scott Fitzgerald collection to give away... “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his ... Read More...
It's received terrific reviews. But what did Dabblers think of our latest selection? First, we hear from Dabbler Book Club Member and Scotland's first soupmonger, Elaine Mason, then from Dabbler Editor, Gaw. Elaine Mason: Some books you pick up as a distraction. Others are relaxing; an unwinding at the end of a long ... Read More...
Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity – to a commenter who tickles our fancy… Jon Hotten's brilliant post on the sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, quiet English despair and the game of cricket seemed to strike a chord with many Dabblers. Martin, ... Read More...
Announcing the winners of this month’s Dabbler Book Club choice… Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie is our latest Dabbler Book Club choice, announced here. We began our week with a ship's encounter with an iceberg, as does Jamie's book and here's a taster: The next iceberg offers to the ship a ramp as smooth and ... Read More...
Nature writing is something we enjoy and sometimes do here at The Dabbler. The next Dabbler Book Club selection is right up our woodland path: Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie. Here's what Philip Hoare, himself no mean writer about nature, thought of Sightlines: Kathleen Jamie, the Scottish poet, has written a book that ... Read More...
Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity – to a commenter who tickles our fancy… Jonathon Green has an incredible facility for evoking an era. Slang obviously helps - words, rather like smells, seem to have the ability to mark ... Read More...
