Books & writers
Big Blonde
Book recommendations and the towns where iconic writers lived, worked, and slept.
Named after Dorothy Parker's classic tale, Big Blonde brings you book recommendations and towns where iconic writers lived, worked, and slept.
Agatha Christie: Queen of Crime, Architect of Mystery
A new British Library exhibition steps inside the world of the best-selling novelist of all time — poisons, notebooks and the Orient Express included.
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New on the Shelf — Five Books for October
Kingsolver, Yiyun Li, David Byrne, Audrey Niffenegger and Chad Harbach: five new releases this month, and why each one is worth your time.
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The Sarcastic Paperbacks of Harland Miller
A Yorkshire-born painter takes the orange-and-white paperback and turns it into a giant canvas for deadpan, heartbroken wit.
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Room of One's Own in Kafka's Prague
Century Old Town — a neo-baroque room where Gregor Samsa feels like a considerate roommate.
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Chapter 1 — Following the Wye
A walk through Hay-on-Wye in the order you'd actually make it — twenty bookshops for 1,500 people, and one river.
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