Right, time for this 1p Book Review series to get ambitious. It was Gaw’s recent post on Cockney Cuisine – “lugubrious spoonfuls of silvery eel and golden jelly” and “suck[ing] on the odd piece of protuberant cartilage” that put me in mind of Ulysses, and particularly of our introduction to ... Read More...
The 1p Book Review
Books for a penny
A couple of years ago, I went to interview Keith Deller, 1983 World darts champion. He took the crown in one of darts’ most famous matches, an upset win over the allegedly unbeatable Crafty Cockney, Eric Bristow. In the pre-Sky, four-channel era, the final went out on one of those ... Read More...
Laura Noble is an artist, lecturer, serial blogger & author of The Art of Collecting Photography with primary essays in many photographic monographs & journals. This is her website and her blog is here. When browsing the shelves of a friend's library I was thrilled to find a selection of Japanese ... Read More...
I recently wrote a magazine article on how the last 50 years of progress haven't been particularly spectacular. A friend who has actually been around for the last 50 years and involved in the development of new technologies in that period of time recommended I read this book - Toward ... Read More...
Mark Pack does his best to avoid thinking about how many blog pieces he writes and how many chocolate pieces he eats. Blogging is usually at his own site and Liberal Democrat Voice, which he co-edits. Chocolate is usually milk, preferably with crunchy bits. When doing neither he used to be ... Read More...
Becky Milligan is a reporter on Radio 4. I was sitting on the loo with the door wide open. It’s what I did when I was ten, as I am sure you did too. I was buried in a book. My father, wearing an ankle length black dress, hovered at the ... Read More...
Inevitably, The Golden Ocean (1956) – Patrick O’Brian’s first nautical novel - can only be discussed in the shadow of his epic and much-loved 20-book Aubrey-Maturin series. Newcomers will want to know if it provides a useful run-up to the biggie; devotees suffering withdrawal symptoms will want to know if ... Read More...
My grandmother always seemed to be reading CP Snow when I was young. E L Wisty used to mention him a bit as well, although, thanks to a subtle stress shift, the author I thought he was talking about was someone called Seapy Snow. The first CP Snow I tried was the initial ... Read More...
Mark Pack does his best to avoid thinking about how many blog pieces he writes and how many chocolate pieces he eats. Blogging is usually at his own site and Liberal Democrat Voice, which he co-edits. Chocolate is usually milk, preferably with crunchy bits. When doing neither he used to be ... Read More...
A High Wind in Jamaica should be far more well-known and well-discussed than it is. This is one of those ‘where have you been all my life?’ novels. I picked it (a 1974 Penguin Modern Classics edition) from my bookshelf the other week on a whim - it must have been languishing ... Read More...
