books

  • Books that see us

    Books that see us

    There is a particular kind of reading experience that is difficult to explain without sounding as though something improbable has occurred. You are reading as you always do, moving through sentences, following an argument, inhabiting a voice, and then something shifts. A line stops you. Not because it is especially beautiful, or clever, or even…

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  • Celebrating books every year

    Today is World Book Day, a day to honour all the books that have made us laugh out loud, caused you to weep, or both, and have stayed in your memories for as long as we can remember. They may not be Nobel-esque literature, but they are the stories we go back to over and…

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