Tag: Books
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Book Release – 2 Days to go! | ‘Startling, heart-warming and thought-provoking’
Just back from a great week on Iona, and very much looking forward to ‘Other‘ being released on Monday. Get your local bookseller to order it and support them if you can. Amazon have already dispatched any pre-ordered copies, and it’d be great if people could make some noise and get the word out there if…
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Once Books are Gone What Will Our Vanity Object Be?
One interesting repercussion of the advent of the e-reader may well be the disappearance of the bookshelf. Before you scoff and say never just remember how resistant I/we were to putting our CDs and vinyl away. But away they have been put, and the solitary ipod is now the norm. So if e-readers become more…
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New Book Unveiled : ‘Other: Loving Self, God and Neighbour in a World of Fractures’
It’s pretty much a year to the day since I began writing my new book, and I now that the contracts are all exchanged I thought it was time to pop the lid off and start getting the word out there. Don’t go rushing to Amazon just yet – it’ll be on shelves in July…
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Inherent Vice: New Pynchon Novel
Just back from holiday, and just hear that Thomas Pynchon has a new book out. For any fans of this most difficult, funny, bawdy and darkly brilliant writers these are nervous times: will we understand a word of it, let alone the many hundred-thousands of words that some of his books can run to. The…
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Espresso Book Machine launches in London
This could change publishing – and book selling – for ever.