Favourite footnotes: 10

This article was amended on 12 January 2016: in the picture caption, Matthew Collings was initially misidentified as William Boyd; the painting by Stephen Finer was wrongly attributed by the provider to David Bowie

- The Guardian (but of course), in a William Boyd article about an artist he and Bowie had made up

Facebooks - VIII (bonus round)

Because 10 books a day for a week turned out not to be quite enough either!

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The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
Wiliam Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - John Carey
Jim Davis - John Masefield
"The Fighting Business" [childhood history compendium, feat. Light Brigade on the front cover. No idea what its real title was]
The Road Stops at Nowhere - Denis Beckett
Messiah - (GF Handel and) Charles Jennens (and others)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
Collected Poems - WB Yeats
Bamboo - William Boyd
Annals of the Former World - John McPhee [not started]

Books I've actually finished lately: 2

Warning: contains recipes for salad dressing and an 'African dry' martini.

Two good news

1) William Boyd has been booked to write the next James Bond (novel, not movie).

2) Some American woman* who writes novels ('novels') in txt [sic] has become the most complained-about author in the US library system. (Though not, of course, on account of her abuse of the English language.)

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* Her name is Lauren Myracle - which I reckon is about all you need to know.

InDefinition - GUEST ENTRY

lives, n. pl. 'the V is silent.'

- William Boyd, Any Human Heart