Wapping Bookshop, a set on Flickr. Is Wapping Bookshop London’s smallest?
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Is this London’s smallest bookshop?
Posted in Arts & entertainment, Books, London, Writing samples on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
#guardianbookswap – Or, How Carrie Got Dumped At London Fashion Week
Posted in Arts & entertainment, Blogging, Books, Writing samples on September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve left my book in London. It’s a good book, one I’m sorry to see go and one that most passers-by will probably want to shred with their teeth. I gave it away to a stranger, but they haven’t even noticed it yet. Around the UK, thousands of naive and dreamy readers like myself will [...]
Interview: Author David Mitchell on his pop-up ‘immersive reading room’ in Spitalfields
Posted in Arts & entertainment, Blogging, Books, Theatre, tagged architecture, books, east london on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A promo campaign for David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet has launched in a pop-up tea house in Spitalfields market, East London – I caught up with him hours after his first visit. The pop-up’s more rough and ready than Mitchell imagined but he was excited to see it realised. “It’s much [...]
Features: Interview with David Shrigley from Frieze Art Fair, and new trend for port
Posted in Art, Arts & entertainment, Books, Food & drink, Writing samples, tagged book art, canongate, david shrigley, david shrigley frieze art fair, drinks, drinks trends, frieze art fair, master of wine, port, porto, serena sutcliffe, taylor fladgate, the yeatman wine hotel, what the hell are you doing on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My two latest features for The Wealth Collection magazine were on my big passions in life: books, and booze. An interview with David Shrigley at this year’s Frieze Art Fair became a feature on the artist’s weird and witty book art. And a press trip to a new wine hotel in Porto, plus a chat [...]
Ones to watch: Parthian’s Bright Young Things authors
Posted in Books, Previous employers, tagged books, independent publishers, indies, publishing, the bookseller on September 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Bright young things can come from anywhere – is it time that we paid more attention to Parthian? Back in April I reported on the Welsh publisher’s awesome cover art for Bright Young Things, novels from authors under-30s. Now it has just emerged that one author, JP Smythe, has already been picked up by publishing [...]
