I received this from Red Circle Authors after Richard from the press thought this might be of interest to me, after looking at it I agreed as it had so many ticks on my interest list. Speculative fiction, translated fiction, short story, Japanese culture, indie press, and a beautiful looking book. The Red Circle Mini …
Edinburgh Castle
Another note from my iPhone. I was in Edinburgh for the weekend working, and this was be the first time I’ve been alone in Edinburgh for coming on 30 years. I did the tourist walk; along the West End, up Lothian Road, through the Meadows down South Bridges, the Royal Mile up to the Castle …
The 1st DADA Manifesto
by Monsieur Antipyrine – 1916 DADA is our intensity: it erects inconsequential bayonets and the Sumatral head of German babies; Dada is life with neither bedroom slippers nor parallels; it is against and for unity and definately against the future; we are wise enough to know that our brains are going to become flabby cushions, …
How to Make Books
My bookbinding tools have arrived and I’ve been playing around with some of the simpler methods in the book. So far it’s been really fun but I am looking forward to the bookbinding course in a few weeks at the Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton. Will play a bit more and try sewing a signature …
Cecily
This gorgeous looking book arrived at work and I made sure that I was first to grab it! When I got it home I was all prepared to start it straight away but someone else saw it and grabbed it and as they were reading it told me how brilliant it was. I finally got …
Igifu
It’s August so that must mean it’s Women in Translation month. I’d already lined up quite a lot of novels and novellas for the month I was in the mood for some short story collections and did a shout out on Twitter for some suggestions. Igifu was one of the suggestions that really made me …
Books for September 2021…
and a round-up of what I did in July. Which saw the reading block well and truly break! Between March 15th and 2nd July I had read only two books, two books. This month I’ve read eight and didn’t feel pressured by any of it. There was also a good hit rate as well two …