A Bookish Tour of The Cotswolds

A Bookish Tour of The Cotswolds

Slow moves the hour that sucks our life, slow drops the late wasp from the pear, the rose tree’s thread of scent draws thin – and snaps upon the air. ‘Field of Autumn’, Laurie Lee Selected Poems, 2014 I begin with a health warning: there is not a great deal to do in...

A Conversation with Karen Runge

Karen Runge’s book is only 16 days old when we meet up on Skype to talk about it. “It’s a screaming new born babe,” she says. “It needs a lot of attention and love and pushing.” It’s interesting to think of Runge’s debut...

A Bookish Tour of Sydney

Sure, you can walk around Circular Quay, taking selfies with the famous Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. You can take your togs down to Bondi Beach and enjoy the sun and sand. You can even cuddle a koala. But why do that when you can trek around some of...
A Bookish Tour of Berlin

A Bookish Tour of Berlin

We continue our bookish tour around the world. This week, we’re in Berlin with Timothy Kennett. The many problems of the bookish have been well-documented in textbooks on bibliomania, literary autobiographies, and the kinds of high school fiction in which shy,...
A Bookish Tour of Cambridge

A Bookish Tour of Cambridge

This is the first in our series on bookstores in cities around the world. This week, Heather takes us on a tour of her hometown of Cambridge. Well-known for its ancient colleges and beautiful parks, Cambridge is actually not known for its great bookshops. I mean, it...

Reading The Stanley Parable

 We can’t get enough of stories which refuse to play by the rules, or which make us suddenly realise we had no idea what the rules were in the first place. Some very interesting, not to say entertaining, narrative experiments are happening in the world of video...