Argues that the physical form of books makes them distinctive, and sometimes dangerous, quite as much as their content. (John Morgan’s recent, limited edition Usylessly, with its beautifully blank pages, comes to mind…).
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers
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Edition:Hardback978024142726228/04/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Carey has been chief reviewer at the Sunday Times for over forty years. This new book is his own selection of his favourite books from the 1000+ that he has reviewed so far.
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews
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From the Bible to Simon Schama, a huge investigation of how the writing of history influences the record of human experience, and therefore its development.
Making History: 2,500 Years of Shaping the Past
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Marius is the distinguished antiquarian bookseller who features in the work of Javier Marias and worked for Bernard Stone and Peter Ellis; also a wide-ranging writer, most recently on Naples... read more
A Factotum in the Book Trade
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A neat bit of historical detective work enabled the author of 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts' to identify Becket's Anglo-Saxon Psalter, which he may have been holding when he was murd... read more