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29.08.09. My
mother has been rushed into hospital 130 miles away, so no news
or updates until I can get back to the office. Add a comment
21.08.09.
No news today ...
I'm out of the
office and will return on August 31st, so no news until then. Add
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20.08.09.
Google book archive plan prompts growing opposition
Opponents and supporters
of the internet giant’s scheme are lining up for a legal fight over
a complex deal agreed last year to fix royalty payments to author
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20.08.09.
Google book archive plan prompts growing opposition
Opponents and
supporters of the internet giant’s scheme are lining up for a legal
fight over a complex deal agreed last year to fix royalty payments
to author ... more
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Kit Williams
reunited with lost golden hare
The creator of
Masquerade, Kit Williams, has been reunited with a hand-made amulet
which he buried 30 years ago and thought he would never see again
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Forthcoming
Frida Kahlo book denounced as fake
A collection
of Frida Kahlo oil paintings, diaries and archival material that
is the subject of a book to be published by Princeton Architectural
Press on 1 November has been denounced by scholars as a cache of
fakes ... more
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How much
harm does a bad book cover do?
If presenting
Wuthering Heights like a new Stephenie Meyer gets people reading,
does it matter? ... more
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Forgotten
Agatha Christie novel discovered
It had lain undiscovered
for decades, gathering dust in a battered cardboard box in the attic
of her holiday home, Greenway House, in south Devon ... more
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18.08.09.
Are luxury photography books recession-proof?
Six-figure sums
are routinely paid for limited-edition photography books – and publishers
tell us they've mined art gold ... more
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Giant knitted
poem takes shape
More than 800
volunteers busy creating the letters for woollen verse to be unveiled
in October to mark Poetry Society centenary ... more
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Chance to
'sponsor' Bard's verse
One of the world's
most famous songs, Auld Lang Syne, could fetch up to £50,000 at
auction - but the winner will not be able to take it home ... more
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17.08.09.
Author William Golding tried to rape teenager
Lord of the
Flies author's memoir describes how attempted attack happened while
he was on holiday during studies at Oxford university ... more
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Artist creates
famous faces from phone books
These amazingly
detailed celebrity faces may look like sketches but they are in
fact carved out of unwanted phone books ... more
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Old cookbooks
that won't gather dust
Our kitchen shelves
should contain as many classic cookbooks as new ones, says Tom Parker
Bowles ... more
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Hitler Album
could shed light on missing looted art
A newly discovered
catalogue of artworks stolen by Nazis compiled for Adolf Hitler
could help unravel the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of lost
materpieces seized during the Second World War ... more
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13.08.09.
Sherlock Holmes appears in pulp drag
Beloved detective
'playfully repackaged' to reach readers who avoid classic books
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Edward Wilson's
1911 Antarctic journey up for sale
Next month, Bonhams
is to auction one of the most significant items of memorabilia from
the Edwardian era of Antarctic exploration to come on the market
for 20 years: Edward Wilson's 40-page handwritten account of the
1911 journey ... more
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Rare edition
of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' sold
A signed, early
edition of Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, has sold at auction
in Britain for £21,000 ... more
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Multiple
map thief behind bars
A thief, who
has already made off with nearly 70 priceless maps and documents
from a number of Spanish libraries, and who was arrested by the
Guardia Civil on Friday, had planned a route of robberies across
the rest of Spain and abroad ... more
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11.08.09.
What lengths would you go to for a book?
John Gilkey has
an aspiration for his life: to own a first edition of every book
on Modern Library's list of Top 100 novels. The trouble is that
Gilkey has no intention of buying any of these books, which include
writings by authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov,
Virginia Woolf, and more. Instead, he has tried to acquire them
in another way: through theft ... more
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Book lover
takes to fourth plinth
A book lover
from Kings Langley will take to the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar
Square tomorrow to read extracts from this year’s Man Booker Prize
nominees ... more
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10.08.09.
Library book returned 70 years on
A library book
borrowed on the eve of World War II has been returned to an east
London council - 70 years overdue. Iris Chadwick, 83, borrowed the
score of the musical Rose Marie from Cubitt Town Library, Tower
Hamlets, in 1939 ... more
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Bloomsbury
backs down over book cover race row
Australian author
Justine Larbalestier has won a battle with her American publishers
to feature a black girl on the cover of her new book, after the
original jacket featuring a white girl provoked controversy from
bloggers and commentators across the internet ... more
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Tomb search
could reveal Shakespeare's true identity
A sarcophagus
in an English parish church could solve the centuries-old literary
debate over who really wrote the plays of William Shakespeare ...
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Rare books
can be decent investment
Rare books are
not only wonderful to read and great to look at, they can also be
a decent investment, says Laura Minor, manager of Bauman Rare Books
in Las Vegas ... more
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07.08.09.
'Oxfam killed my booksop'
If you’re wondering
why there is no coverage of this story, you will find it here
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A bible for
$3,750? I wouldn't go to Abe
Someone bought
a Nonesuch Bible on AbeBooks last month for $3,750. This was Number
9 in the Top 10 most expensive books sold through this online second-hand
bookseller in July. I can’t understand why anyone bought it ...
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Faber and
Faber's tale of independence
One of the last
reasons you might want to set up a publishing firm ought to be “because
my wife doesn’t like the smell of beer”. Yet that is almost exactly
why in 1925 Geoffrey Faber joined forces with Lady Gwyer, then a
publisher of nursing manuals, to create Faber & Gwyer, a company
that four years later became Faber & Faber, which this year celebrates
80 years of independent publishing ... more
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06.08.09.
Scholar interns at old bookstore
Students of literature
often find themselves among old books in the dark reaches of a library.
But Harvard University student Peter Bernard has taken another tack,
spending most days for the past two months combing the antiquated
works at a 106-year-old bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda Jinbocho district
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New Tennyson
museum marks poet's bicentenary
An exhibition
devoted to Lord Alfred Tennyson – and the many distinguished house
guests who visited him – opens at his Isle of Wight home today ...
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04.08.09.
Something for all at golf book auction
If you’re a collector
of golf memorabilia, or simply have an interest in golf history,
check out the auction of rare golf books and collectibles slated
for Thursday, Aug. 6, at PBA Galleries on San Francisco ... more
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L Frank Baum:
the real Wizard of Oz
L Frank Baum
failed as an actor, failed as a salesman, failed as a chicken breeder;
good thing, then, that he wrote 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' ...
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Library reveals
rare photographs
Rarely seen images
from the early days of photography will be revealed in the British
Library's first ever major photographic exhibition. About 250 original
images, including work by 19th century pioneers William Henry Fox
Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron, will go on display in London
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Styled for
the Road
The Wolfsonian–Florida
International University presents Styled for the Road: The Art of
Automobile Design, 1908-1948, an engaging exploration of automobile
design in America from the 1900s through the 1940s. The exhibition,
on view from October 16, 2009 through March 14, 2010, highlights
the important role played by designers and visual artists in communicating
the complex ideas that guided the development of automobiles, roadways,
service stations, and advertising materials ... more
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