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While foraging about the internet’s forest floor to learn all I could about our latest Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Patrick Modiano, I discovered Le Crapouillot. The first discovery was that Modiano had contributed to an issue of a magazine about drugs. The actual title of the issue was: “LSD une bombe atomique dans la […]

Latest in the “My hero” series from The Guardian is a bit from Neil Gaiman. We love Neil Gaiman here, and it’s been fun watching the trajectory of his career over the last couple of decades. I first became aware of Gaiman in 1991 when my sister lent me Good Omens, a novel he co-wrote […]

The votes are in! Congratulations to Australian author Richard Flanagan, whose novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North has been announced the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Not only is Flanagan now £50,000 richer, but he is now virtually guaranteed to be in the eye of the literary community, and […]

French novelist Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. Modiano, 69, is no stranger to accolades. His previous awards include the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012, as well as a lifetime achievement award in 2010 from the Institut de France. Individual novels have also been recognised, including the highly […]

September’s most expensive sales list includes no fewer than four historically significant, multi-volume sets, including the complete works or Sir Winston Churchill in 38 volumes and Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough in 13 volumes. Also on the list is a first edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, signed by J.K. […]

Today is the 110th anniversary of the birth of famous novelist Graham Greene (1904-1991), best known for his celebrated works Our Man in Havana, The End of the Affair and The Power and the Glory. In honour of the day and the man, here are some Graham Greene facts for you. 1) Graham Greene’s complete […]