Friday, August 31, 2018

Arcana in Gloucester

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In a chapel of Gloucester Cathedral there is a set of modern stained-glass windows to two of the shire’s gentler sons, poet Ivor Gurney and...
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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Plums in Pershore

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It’s like trying to browse next door to a demented dentist. The road closures to Hay-on-Wye and the narcotic charm of Ross having failed to...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Perichoresis in Ross

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“You feel this. Go on. Feel it.” I turn in some trepidation from my examination of the shelves. We’re in an unrecorded charity bookshop...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Escapade in Hay

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Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day. Not so far as secondhand bookshops being open, anyway. But we should be all right making for the bord...
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Monday, August 27, 2018

A Book Fair in Churchdown, and an Upper Room in Cheltenham

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Churchdown is marooned, cut off between the dual carriageway and the motorway. You see roads to it soaring above you on bridges, but you ca...
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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Monographs in Tewkesbury, and M R James' Centaur

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“I came out to see why you were laughing,” she said. I was riffling through the pamphlets box on the pavement outside the curio shop in T...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Phyllis Paul in paperback

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Hardcover editions of the eleven novels of Phyllis Paul (1903-1973) are increasingly elusive, and increasingly costly.  All eleven came out ...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

In That Look the Unicorn Stood & Other Dreamt Books

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"People do tell their dreams," said Arthur Machen, in conversation with Morchard Bishop, "but . . ." and there was a wo...
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