Announcing the winners of this month’s Dabbler Book Club choice… Way back in October, Dabbler Elberry treated us to a stirring review of a book that had started making waves in the publishing industry - having been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt is a dark and ... Read More...
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To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, we're serialising The Pickwick Papers... Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, we'reclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, The Pickwick Papers, read by Anton Lesser. Chapters 3 and 4 can be heard below. You can catch up ... Read More...
Elberry puzzles over a 'novel in dramatic form' from the author of No Country for Old Men and The Road... Here is a puzzling thing. McCarthy, who is generally known for harrowing tales of bloodshed and mutilation, has written a play starring a ex-crim and a suicidal professor, sitting at a ... Read More...
It won’t have escaped your notice that 2012 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. To mark it, we have an audio treat for you on The Dabbler... Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, we will be exclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, ... Read More...
We've decided to start 2012's Dabbler Book Club off with a bang - This month we're offering members the chance to get their hands on one of the most incendiary literary hits of the last year - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Sisters ... Read More...
Thanks to our friends at Picador, we've got no less than 24 great books to give away... Picador reaches its 40th anniversary this year, and to mark it they’re reissuing 12 of their most celebrated novels in a very cool new black-and-white cover design (read more about it here). We’ve got two ... Read More...
Elberry puffs his way through a new and much-hyped short story collection... Short stories, like poems, are easy to write, and like poems they are usually worthless. Brevity tempts the would-be writer - easier to write a 5,000-word short story than a 100,000 word novel; and brevity makes the poem and ... Read More...
Dabbler Book Club member Shona give us her views on those of Clive (previous features on Mr James' latest book can be found here and here). A Point of View is just that. For those of us who remember Clive James' ten minute talks on BBC Radio Four, it is a welcome ... Read More...
Blimey has 2011 ended already? We've been so busy reading our way through piles of brilliant books that we'd hardly noticed! We thought it might be nice to fill you in on what everyone's been reading, so here's The Dabbler Book Club's round up of the year just gone.... We've had ... Read More...
Elberry enjoys an "unnervingly lucid" mix of horror and comedy... This is an extremely funny book about booze, bars, violence, and horrible sex. Not new subjects but then how many could there be, in the 21st Century? In any case, deWitt's manner is so peculiar, so arresting, he seems to exist ... Read More...