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Maggi Hambling

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I confess that I first came across Maggi Hambling in the 1980s as a team captain  in a short-lived modern art TV quiz show called ‘Gallery’.  Fellow panelists, including George Melly and Frank Whitford, looked very inebriated and everyone behaved … Continue reading

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Welcome 2017

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Happy New Year to all Story Bazaar readers. 2016 was certainly eventful and unpredictable, or at least it seemed so at the time.  Will we all look back twenty years from now and think otherwise?  For The Story Bazaar it has … Continue reading

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On the wings of imagination

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On Wednesday I went to Java, Bali and Indonesia by way of the magic carpet which lies to the north of Great Russell Street. For the first time ever in my experience there were so many people wishing to visit … Continue reading

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What makes a book sell?

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In mid-December this year ‘Reconquista‘ overtook ‘The Village‘ as The Story Bazaar’s best-selling book. From my point of view this is good news and, one hopes, it bodes well for the future. ‘Reconquista‘ was published only nine months ago, whereas … Continue reading

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Festive Front Page

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A miscellany of news for Christmas Eve… More Prizes Max Porter’s debut ‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers‘ (Faber) which was premiered at the Clapham Literary Festival in May has won the Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young … Continue reading