Showing posts with label Victoria Glendinning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victoria Glendinning. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Facebooks - II

Because Tuesday's child is also full of books.

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Leonard Woolf: A Life - Victoria Glendinning
The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry - ed. The Enthusiast (Ian Sansom     and others)
An Historical Relation of Ceylon... (etc.) - Robert Knox
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Iliad - Homer
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Shah of Shahs - Ryszard Kapuściński
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Collected Short Stories - Roald Dahl
The Libertine - Stephen Jeffreys

Sunday, 16 October 2011

Books finished - quarter ending October 16th

Maps & Legends - Michael Chabon
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - Will Eisner
Leonard Woolf: a life - Victoria Glendinning
Unrecounted - WG Sebald
The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald
Austerlitz - WG Sebald

Saturday, 24 September 2011

Oh.

Speaking from experience, he had the strongest possible opinion on the deleterious effect of regular journalism on a writer's work.
- Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: a biography

Thursday, 22 September 2011

The two types of editor

Leonard met at that first lunch Clifford Sharp, the surly and, as it turned out, alcoholic editor, and the literary editor, Jack Squire...
- Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: a biography