Nige reviews The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy, published this month, and finds a book 'full of joy and wonder and luminous moments'... If you're of a certain age - I guess 50s and upwards - you'll remember this: driving in the country at night (well, being driven ... Read More...
Non-Fiction
The Travellers' Library series of books published by Jonathan Cape gives a fascinating glimpse of literary fashion in the 1920s, including names that have endured, others that have been completely forgotten, and still others currently halfway to obscurity... My edition of James Joyce's Dubliners was published in Jonathan Cape's series The Travellers' Library ... Read More...
Want to get your hands on one of the best nature books of the year? Read on to find out how you can win one of 3 copies of Meadowland by John Lewis-Stemple... What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life ... Read More...
Seamus Sweeney reads God’s Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age 1890-1940 - an unusual work by an author who at one time looked like becoming one of the greats... William Gerhardie has achieved an odd kind of fame; famous for not being famous. He is a writer whose champions specifically focus on ... Read More...
Jon Hotten – aka the Old Batsman – is known for his cricket writing. But he’s also the author of Muscle, a hugely entertaining insight into the alarming world of professional bodybuilding. Here he explains how his involvement with the muscle business began… Bodybuilding is a world that seems very distant ... Read More...
Brit gets an eyeful of The Art of Pin-Up, TASCHEN's comprehensive new guide to a uniquely American art form... Men are simple creatures: show them a picture of an attractive woman in a revealing outfit and you can flog them pretty much anything, from magazines to toothpaste to joining the army. This straightforward ... Read More...
For people who like books, science, culture and intelligent chat, one of the finest radio shows out there is Little Atoms. An independent interview series that goes out every Wednesday at 11am on cult London station, Resonance 104.4fm (also home to Frank Key’s Hooting Yard,) Little Atoms is also a weekly podcast that ... Read More...
Some sound advice for our younger readers today, as Steerforth discovers a 1950s sex guide for boys... Not long ago I found a very instructive book called On Becoming a Man - A Book for Teen-Age Boys by Harold Shryock, M.A., M.D., a teacher at the University of Loma Linda in California. Published in ... Read More...
In our second Tim book competition inside a week, we've got five copies of Tim Parks' new book to give away... Thanks to our friends at Harvill Secker we’ve got 5 copies of Tim Parks' new book Italian Ways to give away to members of our Book Club. For your chance to win one, ... Read More...
'piles: see Benn, Tony'... Just occasionally, a book's index is a work of art in itself. Here, Jonathan Law finds some that offer a hilarious insight into 1970s Britain... In a recent Dabbler Diary, Brit wrote interestingly about reactions to the passing of Tony Benn – that “indefatigable, articulate, admirable, unique ... Read More...
