This month all members of the Dabbler Book Club are 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 free ... Read More...
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Last month we've managed to get our paws on 10 copies of Jeanette Winterson's new horror novel, The Daylight Gate, exciting the critics with its dark re-imagining of the Pendle witch hunts... GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this ... Read More...
The conservationist ideology is full of contradictions, according to a new book. Elberry, who anyway would be "happier in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, daubing himself with blue woad and hunting his enemies with a stone club", reviews it... I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It ... Read More...
To completely misappropriate Jack London - "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." and, in the spirit of all things dabblerish, we went about setting up our Dabbler Book Club for the purposes of sharing inspiration and information with our fellow Dabblers. This ... Read More...
Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, The Dabbler is serialising Richard Fawkes' award-winning The History of Classical Music, read by Robert Powell... Before we leave the Baroque period, this episode looks at the violin, Vivaldi and the development of the solo concerto... This serialisation is an abridged version of the full ... Read More...
Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, The Dabbler is serialising Richard Fawkes' award-winning The History of Classical Music, read by Robert Powell... In this episode we arrive at Johann Sebastian Bach and look at the development of keys, and of music for the keyboard... This serialisation is an abridged version of ... Read More...
Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, The Dabbler is serialising Richard Fawkes' award-winning The History of Classical Music, read by Robert Powell... This fourth episode looks at the Baroque period, Monteverdi and the invention of opera.... This serialisation is an abridged version of the full audiobook, which you can buy from ... Read More...
The lucky winners of the latest Dabbler Book Club selection… Free books. What’s not to like? Especially when the book in question is Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways, a book that has deservedly been sitting in the bestseller lists for weeks now. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive and celebrated voice, the book ... Read More...
Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, The Dabbler is serialising Richard Fawkes' award-winning The History of Classical Music, read by Robert Powell... This third episode takes in the Renaissance period and the High Renaissance in England, and features music from Palestrina, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd [above].... This serialisation ... Read More...
With the East End about to host the Olympic Games, Neil Fraser's new book Over the Border: The Other East End tells the story of this overlooked but in fact vitally important area of London. In an exclusive guest post for The Dabbler, the author looks at what 'legacy' - ... Read More...