Archives: Books
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The Daily Mail Cookery Book; or, Add Quip To Taste.
Oh dear. Look what’s on the menu today. Bile, with a soupçon of snide racism. A healthy dash of red-faced outrage to go with your hypocrisy; a double helping of standards, lashings of lashings…Mmmm. Give it all a good stir….
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Warwici Inhabitatus; or, The Saxton Map Of Warwickshire
Are you on the map? This one of Warwickshire dates from 1607 and my photo shows the traditional centre of England, Meriden, apparently now usurped by a field in Leicestershire. Damn computers. The map was published originally in 1579 by Christopher…
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Kiss The Book; or, Not a Bibliomystery.
Valentine’s Day! Time to kiss the one we love – in my case, a book. And what a great title for a book lover. I couldn’t wait to read it. A mysterious bible that curs’d the lips that touched it?…
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Gay Love; or, OZ Magazine Leads The Way
Rip it up and start again? My generation had our hopes and opinions forged in the crucible of punk rock. We thought we invented anti-establishment but unfortunately it turns out a load of hippies got there first. OZ magazine was…
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The Ultimate Bibliomystery; or, Death Of A Bookseller.
Bernard J. Farmer wrote ‘The Gentle Art of Book Collecting’ but in this take on the subject he reveals the sordid truth of the matter. Farmer was a policeman, a collector and later an author. I first saw this marked…
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