Eddy Currents Lover with a laptop, goggles and nit-comb.
Suggestions
After the Fire a Still Small Voice. Evie Wyld
I am going to read this next. In the meantime, Dan, when you've finished buggering about in Edinburgh, this is your copy, hand delivered by the author herself.
Await Your Reply. Dan Chaon
'Happy is a strong word.' The new, brilliantly written, novel from Dan Chaon.
Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon
Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe and the Fish Tshirt.
Noah's Compass Anne Tyler.
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Love and Summer. William Trevor
There are cats in this book. Viviane Schwarz
Wonderfully playful picture book featuring Tiny, Moonpie and Andre. Signed copies available.
Me Cheeta. James Lever
Well aware that no animal has ever been sued for libel, Cheeta, star of Tarzan and Doctor Doolitle, tells it as it really was. Naughty boy.
Love and Obstacles. Aleksandar Hemon
The Rehearsal. Eleanor Catton
How to Paint a Dead Man. Sarah Hall
The Mousehunter. Alex Milway
Learn more about The Mousehunter - read the first chapter, buy a signed copy with exclusive free badge here
What Was Lost. Catherine O'Flynn
Now with added Booker and Costa. This is what I said in February. here
No One Belongs Here More Than You. Miranda July
If you haven't already visited the website for this book, go there now.
In Search of the Missing Eyelash. Karen Mcleod
I woke up in a foreign armpit. Buy a signed copy here
London Pub Reviews. Paul Ewen
The London boozer fully explained. Now smoke free. The funniest fucking book you will read all year. So funny in fact, that Steven Hunt is not allowed to carry a copy on public transport. Buy here
Join us at 5pm on December 5th, for an early Christmas drink, some music and a reading by author Chris Salewicz from his book Bob Marley the Untold Story.
I buy all books on Amaz*n now because of the huge price difference. But I still use bookshops as places to go to first - to remind me of what's out there and to look at and touch the books.
Quoted in a sidebar to this article in today's Observer.
[And I say that as someone who has both personally sold her plenty of books in the past, and also, sold plenty of her books in the past - in the past, being the significant part of that sentence.]
So should online retailers pay a modest levy on their substantial profits to reward independent bookshops for drumming up their trade?
Tom Sutcliffe ponders the future of his local independent bookshop - without doing any maths, save for simple subtraction, and don't get me started on the irony of his book example of choice. Survival of the fittest, what?
[Elsewhere in the same paper I read that independent bookshops are suffering from the ending of the Harry Potter gravy train. Yeah, right, lots and lots of gravy.]
A week or so ago somebody from Soul Jazz Records 'phoned to tell me about the book Freedom,Rhythm and Sound - revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83 compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart baker.
I said, yes we've got that, it's great. Sold three copies already.
I sensed that this wasn't the response that they had been getting from some other independent bookshops.
We chatted some more and then a couple of days ago a copy of the accompanying CD arrived in the post.
Which made my day (thanks Steve). And so to celebrate I give you the Art Ensemble of Chicago in their pomp.