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“Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.” – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss December is here and we are ready […]
“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” ― A.A. Milne I know, I know: it’s a strange opening for a bookshop blog. Bear with me here. All will be revealed in time. As we wend our way toward the festive season, the Book-ish […]
If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. — Douglas Coupland Can I let you in on a secret, dear friend of Book-ish (you and the entire, public Internet)? I’m not actually that fussed about Hallowe’en. Pumpkin risotto and a Hammer film and I’m set for […]
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr . Seuss It’s that time of year – the temperature has dropped and the there’s a cooler touch to the wind. The nights have started to drawn in much sooner and you’ve […]
Rampaging Rugby: Horrible Histories for sport As a hyperactive kid, sport was one of my handiest outlets. Not only was it the only time of day I was allowed to run about the place shouting, I was also quite good at some of it, which was nice because my brother and sister were both well-behaved […]
“I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long.” – Tom Waits Let us give a warm welcome to August… although I truly do not know how it came along so quickly. August is like the Sunday of summer as they say. So may we enjoy each of its’ warm days and find […]
“It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” — T. S. Eliot, from the essay “Dante.” So when I said I wanted to do a blog post on poetry, and started running my mouth about having written some (and had a couple published, years and years ago, sadly LONG out […]
Your eyes do not deceive you – we did say “roly-poly flying pony”. Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre have long been passionate champions of bookshops. They’ve dedicated their fourth Roly-Poly Flying Pony book, Kevin vs The Unicorns, publishing in September 2021 and available for pre-order here, to ‘all the hard-working booksellers who have soldiered on through the […]
Readers and reviewers who have enjoyed The Favour have tended to focus on the Italian setting. The early part of the novel takes place on a gap year art history course, in which in a group of privileged young teenagers travel around the splendours of Italy, soaking up art and alcohol in equal measure. My […]
“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.” – Virginia Woolf Welcome to our June blog post! The world has slowly started to reopen just in time for summer and that includes us. We […]