Pages & Proofs

July’s most expensive sale on AbeBooks was Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children which won the Booker Prize way back in 1981. This particular copy sold for a shade over £9,100 and is a rare, uncorrected proof of the first UK edition in its original proof wrapper. JK Rowling’s new book, written as as Robert Galbraith, failed […]

Found on old edition of the New York Times from April and while browsing the travel section, I found a list of eight writers who walked. Or rather found literary inspiration through their walks. William Wordsworth – a fellow poet Thomas de Quincey believed Wordsworth walked over 180,000 miles during his lifetime and spend most […]