Posts Tagged ‘books’

Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you occupied for hours. This post on Roald Dahl covers popped up in Paul K's shared GR items last week, and today I [...]

I've neglected this place a little since my epic write-up of my epic meal at the Fat Duck. Which is a bit of a shame, as I did some equally noteworthy and interesting things last week.

Awful Library Books – [via stml]

Last week I mentioned that the Kuniyoshi exhibition had reminded me of a book I loved as a child, The Voyage of Prince Fuji by Jenny Thorne. It's long been out of print, and there's no information about it online, so I promised to do a post about the book, with some pictures from it, [...]

vandonovan: Very purple. – I'm presuming everyone has seen this by now, right? You mean you haven't? You should.

As promised in my last post, I dug out my copy of House By Mouse, written by George Mendoza and illustrated by Doris Smith. Reading through it again, I was tickled to see which houses I coveted when I was little — as indicate by a pencil caption "my house" on each one I liked. [...]

So, I was just catching up on some blog-reading, and was looking at Sarah's lovely post on the backstory to Vern & Lettuce, with this ace cutaway illustration of Lettuce's burrow: The illustration instantly reminded me of a book I'd loved when I was a kid, House By Mouse. I couldn't remember who had written [...]

One of my photos has been selected to be in the upcoming Slow Exposure exhibition at Foyles. If you can't make it to the private view on May 1st, the exhibition opens on April 24th and runs for a month, if you want to catch it. (There's a Facebook event for the private view, if [...]

Postcards from the hinterland – Solaris – and posting this one just because it was immediately next to Sarah's post about the DFC on my LJ friends-list. That's two publishers selling off their smaller imprints (which directly impinges on my friends' lives) in the space of a few minutes (as it were)

Sarah McIntyre – sad day for the DFC – Random House puts the DFC up for sale. This *is* sad (though not *entirely* unexpected, I must admit, even without the recession, just because of the way the market was anyway). But it'll be a greater pity if the enthusiasm and creativity it inspired takes a [...]