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Christmas is coming and can’t one just tell when looking at the piles of books for sale in Waterstones and W H Smiths. In an industry where spotting the next best seller is increasingly difficult, big publishers will resort to … Continue reading
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On Tuesday evening I went along to Hammersmith and the Blue Anchor, a pub overlooking the River Thames. I was there for this month’s meeting of History by the River, an event run by the Historical Writers Association and its … Continue reading
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It is said that there are only six degrees of separation between any two people. In his 1929 book of short stories Everything is Different, Frigyes Karinthy suggested in Chain Links that, as the networks which people used to communicate … Continue reading
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Books are precious things and, as regular readers will know, The Story Bazaar loves a library, real or fictional. In The Name of the Rose, a forgotten volume of Aristotle’s Poetics was hidden in a labyrinthine library and its secrets … Continue reading
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It’s Autumn and there’s lots of fruitfulness going on. Keats and the Romantics pretty much cornered the market on autumnal descriptions, so you will find none here. Autumn also features in so many books as a melancholic background, symbol of … Continue reading
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