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...
The Dabbler Book Club
When we selected last month’s Dabbler Book Club choice, which you can buy here, we wondered whether the author was able to pull off what sounded like quite an outrageous proposition. Well does he? Brit: The central conceit of Hope: A Tragedy would have made a fine episode of South Park: it is ... 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...
The Possessed is the uncategorisable hit 'memoir' by friend of The Dabbler Elif Batumann. Brit reviewed it here and Elif herself contributed a guest Dabble here. Now Elberry offers his review... This is a pleasing, deceptively readable book, fairly accurately subtitled "Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them". It is a ... 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… Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander is a bizarre and controversial novel, which we announced as our latest Dabbler Book Club choice here. For some ten lucky winners of a copy, chosen at random from our book club members, Hope turned into Triumph: Graham ... 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 reads "a well-informed, intelligent, and judicious book" but instinctively disagrees with its author... My stepfather once said: "I hate cities. I don't much like towns, either." He's lived most of his life in a village in West Yorkshire, and worked as a bus driver for a good twenty years. He ... 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. Chapters 15 and 16 can be heard below. You can catch ... Read More...
It's safe to say that the next Dabbler Book Club selection is a publishing one-off. This month you have the chance to win a copy of Shalom Auslander's unlikely novel Hope: A Tragedy. This is Auslander's self-described "Persuasively Written Book Jacket Copy": Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens ... Read More...
