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 13 and 14 can be heard below. You can catch ... Read More...
The Dabbler Book Club
A novel entitled The Third Reich was discovered among Roberto Bolaño's papers after his death in 2003, and has only recently been published in book form. Elberry tries to get to grips with it... Bolaño is a vexing writer. He is generally hailed as a great genius, and even in translation ... 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 11 and 12 can be heard below. You can catch ... Read More...
Dabbler Book Club member Monix reviews William Boyd's latest blockbuster. We also have a couple of copies to give away - see below... Lysander Rief, a quite handsome, quite well-educated, quite successful young actor, engaged to be married to one of England’s most glamorous actresses, has cancelled all his plans, withdrawn ... Read More...
'For the sake of thoroughness he proceeded to electrocute his genitals'... Elberry enters the world of the mad scientist... So the world never found out how savannah chimps would respond to the sight of a live leopard rolling down a hill towards them in a wire-mesh ball. This is the kind of ... 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 9 and 10 can be heard below. You can catch up on ... Read More...
Congratulations to our two lucky winners of this excellent prize... 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. We had two full sets to give away, each worth just shy of £100, and winners ... 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 7 and 8 can be heard below. You can catch ... Read More...
Elberry reads an illuminating biography of a 'cocky, mordant, determined' playwright... Ben Jonson had the misfortune to be a late 16th Century English playwright. Who would read one of Jonson's diligently allegorical plays if he could read Hamlet or King Lear? Certainly, at first glance Jonson seems a lumbering, uninteresting writer, ... 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'reclusively serialising their abridged version of what is perhaps Dickens’ funniest work, The Pickwick Papers, read by Anton Lesser. Chapters 5 and 6 can be heard below. You can catch up on previous chapters ... Read More...