This month we welcome the chance to win, review, read, share, annotate, etc. (Dabblerise in short) the work of one of our favourite contemporary critics, the great Clive James. This month's choice - by popular demand - is Clive James' freshly-published A Point of View, a collection of the 60 pieces ... 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... You can be reasonably sure that there will be at least one Dabbler commenter who will know more about the subject in hand than anyone ... Read More...
Announcing the winners of this month's Dabbler Book Club choice... Being people who enjoy working at the post-digital technological horizon we've hooked up our Dabbler databases (literally - we've also employed fishing line) to a reconditioned, random-name-generating water mill. The project has been a terrific success and we're now able to ... Read More...
Across the towns, beaches and countryside of West Sussex are placed the Cardboard Reality Interventions of the indefatigable artist, ukulele-virtuoso and friend of The Dabbler, Outa_Spaceman. You may recall that we posted some of these on The Dabbler back in January. Here are some more. We approve. Outa_Spaceman will be providing musical support to Frank Key at his rare ... Read More...
Introducing our Dabbler Book Club choice for October... Our Dabbler Book Club choice for this month is Apricot Jam by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. Book club members have the chance of an exclusive preview of this newly-translated collection of short stories by a Russian master, which is to be published in the UK ... 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... There's very little in life that wouldn't be improved with a bit of running commentary - sex, supermarket shopping and child birth to name but ... Read More...
Using the cutting edge random selection powers of our patented Dabblebot, we’ve conducted our latest round of Dabbler Book Club prize draws. We've had an unprecedented level of interest in this month's prize, so congratulations to John Groves of Ripon, who wins a signed copy of Peter Ackroyd’s Foundation. Congrats also ... Read More...
Introducing our Dabbler Book Club choice for September... Our Dabbler Book Club choice for September is Map of a Nation - A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt. Here's the blurb: ‘This is a brilliant book. . . . history at its best’ A N Wilson, Reader's Digest ‘Hewitt tackles the ... Read More...
This month's Dabbler Book Club selection was The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (buy it here). Below, Dabbler Book Club member Audrey lets you know her thoughts. But what do you think? Please do let us know in the comments. The Stranger’s Child was left abandoned by the Booker prize shortlist this year, ... Read More...
Every one's a winner on The Dabbler today: now it's Dabbler Book Club member Emily Taylor, who's got two free tickets to Writing on Houses - Dwelling on Dwelling, an evening of discussion on 19th September at King's Place in London. It features Alan Hollinghurst (author of the Book Club's choice for August, ... Read More...