'We seem to have lost any sense of what it is to be human'...Elberry reviews Lebanese intellectual Amin Maalouf's exploration of the post-9/11 world... In general, I try to avoid knowing anything about politics, foreign affairs, or the world; that way, I can’t have opinions and so avoid strife. I am ... Read More...
The Dabbler Book Club
Last month's Dabbler Book Choice was Ian McEwan tricksy new spy story Sweet Tooth. Here's Brit's review. To be in with a chance of getting your hands on future giveaways, sign up to the Dabbler Book Club today! Pictured above is The Interior of the British Institution Gallery, a painting of paintings within ... Read More...
Elberry enjoys a new addition to the pantheon of great surrealists... In an age of drably realistic novels about middle class London fools and their tedious midlife crises, it's refreshing to read a book narrated by the Principal Composer to the Imperial Court of Greater Fallowfields. Alas for Greater Fallowfields, the Emperor ... Read More...
Want to get into publishing? Here's a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic book-lover... The Dabbler Book Club currently has approximately 1000 members, who receive a monthly email newsletter and are entered into regular free draws to win new books, along with various other goodies and freebies. Now we’re looking for someone to ... Read More...
Elberry reviews Howard Jacobson's collection of essays. WARNING: Below the fold the language is very strong and unasterisked. But also very funny. What a f***er, I thought. What a grotesque, big-nosed, loud, clownish, apple polishing literary f***er. It was 2003 and I was looking at Howard Jacobson. He was sitting at a ... Read More...
The Dabbler Book Club currently has approximately 1000 members, who receive a monthly email newsletter and are entered into regular free draws to win new books, along with various other goodies and freebies. Now we’re looking for someone to take the Club to the next level and become Dabbler Book Club ... Read More...
Elberry reviews a new spy thriller... Judging from British charity shops, SAS memoirs are being continuously bought, possibly read, and then discarded. They are popular but not, it seems, held on to for re-reading. Since the 1980 Princes Gate siege, the SAS have become a part of urban mythology, as supermen ... Read More...
Last month The Dabbler witches rummaged around in their cauldron to summon forth 10 free copies of The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson, which were duly distributed amongst the members of the Dabbler Book Club. As Worm describes below, It turns out that it was a devilishly good read. To ... Read More...
Fed up with the post-Olympics feelgood factor? Sense of national pride making you gag? Good news, here's why we're all going to hell in a handcart... Perhaps to be born English was to have won first prize in the lottery of life, in the 19th Century. In the 21st, it's more like one ... Read More...
This month all members of the Dabbler Book Club have been in with a chance of winning a copy of Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan, sure to be seen being read everywhere between now and Christmas. If you haven’t already joined the book club, why not sign up now, it’s ... Read More...