Thursday, September 26, 2019

Philip N. Pullman, The Haunted Storm (1972)

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The 1972 dust-wrapper, from Facsimile Dust Jackets, L.L.C. Pullman, Philip N. The Haunted Storm (London: New English Library, 1972) I...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

R.I.P. Charles M. Collins (1935-2019)

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I recently learned that my friend Charlie Collins passed away at the end of August. I met him because his company of publisher's represe...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

A Wild Tumultory Library

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A Wild Tumultory Library , just published by Tartarus Press, offers the following: Three essays on figures of the Eighteen Nineties Thr...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Count Stenbock in the TLS

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It's nice when mainstream reviews like the TLS pay some attention to our small corner of the literary world, and nicer when they sincer...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Philip Owens - Picture of Somebody?

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In discussing Picture of Nobody , Philip Owens’ fantasy of Shakespeare transposed to the Nineteen Thirties, I explained that I could not fi...
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Sunday, August 25, 2019

The Pale Illuminations

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Sarob Press has just announced The Pale Illuminations , a book of four long stories by Peter Bell, Derek John, Reggie Oliver and Mark Valen...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

R I P Richard Booth, The King of Hay

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The local newspaper for Hay-on-Wye, the Brecon & Radnor Express , reports the sad news that Richard Booth, the man who founded the book...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Picture of Nobody - Philip Owens

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In Picture of Nobody (1936) by Philip Owens, Shakespeare is recreated as an impoverished young poet in Nineteen Thirties London. It is not...
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