Love libraries

Love libraries

Culture
29 Aug 2006

Do you love libraries? You do? Fantastic! Then you’ll already know how great they are for free books, reading groups, meeting authors and sound reading advice. And a lot more besides. Last month David Lammy MP, Minister for the Arts (and Libraries) at... read more...

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HOW TO READ

HOW TO READ
BY NICK HORNBY
Seven
20 Aug 2006

Three years ago, I began writing a column entitled ‘Stuff I’ve Been Reading’ for the American arts and books magazine The Believer. I wanted to write about the reality of reading – how, if you’re lucky, one book leads to another, creating a paper trail... read more...

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NICK HORNBY ON HOWTOREAD

NICK HORNBY ON HOWTOREAD

Seven
20 Aug 2006

(ANDWHYYOU SHOULD NEVER STRUGGLE THROUGHA BOOK) read more...

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How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide

How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide
BY JOHN SUTHERLAND
Seven
13 Aug 2006

B PROFILE, 9.99, 263 pp 9.99 (1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 ack to basics: you are in the fiction department of a bookshop, surrounded by novels, or in the virtual halls of Amazon, with half a million titles to choose from. Where do you start? Don’t... read more...

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Feel free to browse

Feel free to browse

The Guardian
12 Aug 2006

Put William Caxton in HG Wells’s time machine and transport him from his busy little stall by Westminster Abbey, 1480, to Oxford Street, London, or Fifth Avenue, New York, in summer 2006. The founder of our British book trade would, like the... read more...

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Dream on, self-righteous leftists and angry neocons

Dream on, self-righteous leftists and angry neocons
Martin Kettle
The Guardian
12 Aug 2006

Perhaps you already knew that there are an estimated 300 million shipping containers around the globe. Or perhaps, like me, you have not given the matter much thought. But I can tell you that around 4,000 per vessel can be carried on fleets of... read more...

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CONFESSIONS OF A LITERARY STALKER

CONFESSIONS OF A LITERARY STALKER

Seven
06 Aug 2006

I’M STANDING SOAKED RIGHTTHROUGHTO my underwear high up on theYorkshire moors, peering through the twilight to get a photo of a cliff all but obscured by gusts of rain. Ten minutes later, I’ll strip to the skin in the car, and, two hours later, I’ll be... read more...

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Dear Reader, who exactly are you?

Dear Reader, who exactly are you?

Seven
06 Aug 2006

ho do you write for?’ For the past 30 years – since I first became a writer – this is the question I’ve heard most often from both readers and journalists. Their motives depend on the time and the place, as dothe things they wish to know. But they... read more...

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