The Book Trunk

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  • Magical Moorlands

    I read this on my Kindle, so there’s no cover toadmire, but I could resist including this pictureof the ‘real’ book. I don’t ever remember learning about moors when I did ‘A’ level geography at school. Glaciation, yes. Vulcanicity, yes.… Continue reading

  • Do You Have An Odd Book Shelf? (Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman)

    The late-great Flann O’Brien (aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) would, I feel have approved wholeheartedly of Anne Fadiman and her family. The idiosyncratic exponent of the art of Professional Book Handling (http://chriscross-thebooktrunk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-want-to-be-book-handler.html) would have been delighted by their… Continue reading