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23.09.10.
Foyles
makes first real profit for a decade
Jazz evenings
and readings by authors such as Martin Amis and Peter Carey in its
famous London bookshop on Charing Cross Road have helped Foyles
to its first real profit in a decade.
Sam Husain, the chief executive and
only the second non-family member to run the 107-year-old business,
said: "Our figures have been achieved by providing a 'proper' book-retailing
service and turning Charing Cross into a destination store ... more
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The ‘Great
book robbery’
A Dutch-based
organization is currently working on producing a documentary on
the looting of books and manuscripts during the 1948 Arab-Israeli
war ... more
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22.09.10.
Persian
painted poems bring an ancient world to life
The artistic
legacy of one of the world’s greatest literary epics is the subject
of a new exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam
Museum ... more
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Rare Enid
Blyton manuscripts acquired
Although Blyton
wrote more than 700 books during her five-decade writing career
– producing up to 10,000 words a day on a portable typewriter that
she would balance on her knee – very few of her original manuscripts
have survived. So when a range of material from the estate of the
late Gillian Baverstock, Blyton's elder daughter, went up for auction
last week, Seven Stories was quick to pounce ... more
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Did John
Milton write filthy, innuendo-laden rhyme?
Oxford lecturer
finds An Extempore Upon a Faggot in 18th century anthology, supposedly
by the author of Paradise Lost ... more
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Rare book
thief absconds for second time
A Stirling man
who admitted stealing a rare book and then spent nearly two years
on the run has disappeared again ... more
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20.09.10.
Writer,
collector, hunter of rare books
Graham Greene
went on record once to say that if hadn’t been a writer, he would
like to have owned and run a secondhand bookshop. He was a keen
(and pretty sharp) book collector. He followed the bespoke trade
journal The Book Collector carefully ... more
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Rare Harry
Potter pages displayed
Original handwritten
manuscripts by Harry Potter author JK Rowling are going on display
as part of a book festival in the south of Scotland ... more
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Superman
to the rescue!
£1.5m vintage
comic discovered in attic saves hard-up couple from losing their
home ... more
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18,000 books
missing
More than 18,000
books have gone missing from Wigan’s libraries over the last three
years ... more
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British Library
returns looted manuscript
A 12th Century
manuscript which was housed in the British Library is to be returned
to Italy because it was looted during World War II ... more
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02.09.10.
No
news is ...
There's precious
little book-related news at this time of year, so I'm going to take
the opportunity to sign off for a belated summer holiday. Hopefully,
the "silly season" will have ended when I return to the
keyboard on September 20th.
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01.09.10.
Tall
tales and fictitious voyages
Travel lies are
as old as literature itself, or perhaps even older. Sailors, the
quintessential travellers, are well known for their sailor’s yarns.
And how better to impress the stay-at-homes than with stories of
sea serpents, dwarfs, giants, headless or dog-faced people in faraway
places? This was much more satisfying than telling of hard work,
bad food and low pay ... more
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Reformation
documents go on show
A collection
of historic manuscripts which document the establishment of the
Protestant church in Scotland have gone on display in Edinburgh
... more
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