A major new academic work on Wittgenstein reveals the human face of a brilliant but difficult man, finds Elberry... In an age of meretricious academic nonsense, Wittgenstein in Cambridge is a professional, scholarly work. Professor McGuinness has collected and edited nearly 500 pages of letters between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and ... Read More...
The Dabbler Book Club
It's received terrific reviews. But what did Dabblers think of our latest selection? First, we hear from Dabbler Book Club Member and Scotland's first soupmonger, Elaine Mason, then from Dabbler Editor, Gaw. Elaine Mason: Some books you pick up as a distraction. Others are relaxing; an unwinding at the end of a long ... Read More...
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, we're serialising The Pickwick Papers... Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, we're exclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, The Pickwick Papers, read by Anton Lesser. The latest episodes can be heard below. You can catch up ... Read More...
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, we're serialising The Pickwick Papers... Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, we're exclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, The Pickwick Papers, read by Anton Lesser. The latest episodes can be heard below. You can catch up ... Read More...
Announcing the winners of this month’s Dabbler Book Club choice… Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie is our latest Dabbler Book Club choice, announced here. We began our week with a ship's encounter with an iceberg, as does Jamie's book and here's a taster: The next iceberg offers to the ship a ramp as smooth and ... Read More...
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, we're serialising The Pickwick Papers... Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, we're exclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, The Pickwick Papers, read by Anton Lesser. The latest episodes can be heard below. You can catch up ... Read More...
Elberry finds historian Anna Reid successfully managing a difficult balancing act in her new book about the seige of Leningrad, which killed four times as many people as Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined... "When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics" (Stalin to Churchill at Teheran) And the opening ... Read More...
Nature writing is something we enjoy and sometimes do here at The Dabbler. The next Dabbler Book Club selection is right up our woodland path: Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie. Here's what Philip Hoare, himself no mean writer about nature, thought of Sightlines: Kathleen Jamie, the Scottish poet, has written a book that ... Read More...
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, we're serialising The Pickwick Papers... Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, we're exclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, The Pickwick Papers, read by Anton Lesser. The latest episodes can be heard below. You can catch up ... Read More...
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, we're serialising The Pickwick Papers... Thanks to our friends at Naxos Audiobooks, we're exclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, The Pickwick Papers, read by Anton Lesser. The latest episodes can be heard below. You can catch up ... Read More...
