I’m loving all the posts for #AltTextCoverDay today so join in if you can!
Here’s a beautiful book I bought earlier this year on a trip to Oxford. We visited the historic Blackwell’s bookshop which is enormous as I wanted to go to the rare books section at the top of the shop to see if they had any first editions of my favourite author, Barbara Pym. She studied at Oxford University and many of her books, which were published in the mid 20th century, are set in the city. I was surprised to find they only had one, Crampton Hodnet, and that it was no more expensive than a standard hardback book. I’m #blind so my husband described the cover and read the blurb for me and even though I’ll only ever read this book in Braille or audio now I had to buy it!
This novel was one she wrote just before WW2 but it was not published in her lifetime. She had a difficult #publishing journey after initial success in the 1950s and was eventually shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Quartet in Autumn in 1977. After her death in 1980 Macmillan finally published this one in 1985.
I’ve read all her books and a recent biography of her, so I love that I get to own this piece of her publishing history which is something she never got to enjoy. #bookstodon@bookstodon
This thrilling debut is due to be published on 20th July 2023.
Well written with a good pace, this book does make you think about who you befriend on holiday especially when it’s an isolated island. Secrets aplenty, some worth killing for.
A brilliant summer read, just not if you’re diving or in Thailand. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'The question is whether we as a society are willing to sacrifice a bit of effciency in the interest of fairness.' #DeZinVanHetBoek#TheEssenceOfTheBook
Grateful to see New York Times bestselling #author, Gretchen Rubin recommending my first #book, Signposts to Elsewhere—which was reissued by Hay House #India (publishers of Deepak Chopra & Dr. Wayne W. Dyer).
I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.