White Spines
Confessions of a Book Collector
Seiten
2021
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78463-213-7 (ISBN)
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78463-213-7 (ISBN)
A mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle’s passion for Picador’s fiction publishing from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s.
Editor’s Choice, The Bookseller
A mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle’s passion for Picador’s fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. It explores the bookshops and charity shops, the books themselves, and the way a unique collection grew and became a literary obsession. Above all a love song to books, writers and writing.
Editor’s Choice, The Bookseller
A mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle’s passion for Picador’s fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. It explores the bookshops and charity shops, the books themselves, and the way a unique collection grew and became a literary obsession. Above all a love song to books, writers and writing.
Nicholas Royle has published five collections of short fiction, including The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories (Swan River Press), London Gothic and Manchester Uncanny (both Confingo). He is also the author of seven novels, most recently First Novel (Vintage). He has edited more than two dozen anthologies, including twelve earlier volumes of Best British Short Stories. He also runs Nightjar Press, which publishes original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. His first work of non-fiction, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (Salt), was published in 2021. Forthcoming are Paris Fantastique (Confingo) and Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf (Salt).
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.07.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | No |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten |
ISBN-10 | 1-78463-213-9 / 1784632139 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78463-213-7 / 9781784632137 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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