Daily Bookshot: Bracketed Outpouring

Bracketed Outpouring, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

This shot shows a portion of the distinctive and beautiful cover, designed by talented artist and University of West England graduate Gaby Selby, for the recently published Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Vol. 3 (Bristol Review of Books).
For those that don’t know, the Bristol Short Story Prize is [...]

Daily Bookshot: The Beauty of Simplicity

The Beauty of Simplicity, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Beautiful Books were on Twitter today revealing the cracking new cover for one of their top titles due out next spring, Flick by Abigail Tarttelin (you can see the cover art and find out a little more about book on the author’s website). One thing [...]

Daily Bookshot: A week of Van Booy and Barry

A week of Van Booy and Barry, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

If you’ve been following RobAroundBooks lately then you will have noticed, aside from the lethargic pace, that there’s been a proliferation in the focus on short story collections. And this week it’s going to look even more like that as I gear up for [...]

Daily Bookshot: The Ben Greenman letters?

The Ben Greenman letters?, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

You could be forgiven for thinking that this is a shot of a stack a letters posted sometime recently from the US city of Boston. However, if you did think that, then you’d be wrong. Rather, this is a shot from the opening page of the titular [...]

Bookshelf of the Week: Parliament of Victoria Library

If sumptuous surroundings are high on your list of requirements when it comes to visiting a library, then you probably couldn’t do much better than visiting the library that’s the focus of this week’s Bookshelf of the Week. Sadly however, a straightforward visit isn’t, well, as straightforward as you might think (unless you’re part [...]

Daily Bookshot: 2nd-Hand Haul!

2nd-Hand Haul!, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Isn’t it fantastic when the Books Gods look down favourably upon you and bestow you with wonderful finds? Well, I must have been really well behaved lately in the eyes of the gods, because at the weekend I stumbled across four wonderful titles to add to my personal library, [...]

Daily Bookshot: An ‘edgy’ shortlist

An ‘edgy’ shortlist, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Good times ahead this week as the winner of this year’s Edge Hill Short Story Prize is announced (Wednesday 8th to be precise, at an event at Blackwell’s Charing Cross bookstore in London). And while I’ve never claimed that I was going to meet a deadline of [...]

Daily Bookshot: Birthday Gift from the Doppelganger

Birthday Gift from the Doppelganger, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Birthday’s come but once a year thankfully, but I wouldn’t mind celebrating a birthday every month, if kind thoughtful souls like Lisa Shakespeare are handing out the presents.
On the morning of the 18th June I awoke to my 43rd year and the sound of the [...]

Daily Bookshot: Vintage Capote…

Vintage Capote…, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

…but not quite ‘vintage’ enough!
It’s not every day that one picks up a 1967 edition of Truman Capote’s seminal work of literary journalism, In Cold Blood but last week one of those days when I strolled into a 2nd-hand shop and waltzed away (quite literally) with this delicious copy. [...]

Daily Bookshot: Turkish Delight

Turkish Delight, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

Such are my reading tastes that I rarely find the kind of books that I like in the 2nd-hand shops in my local town (does that sound snobby? It isn’t meant to ). Imagine my surprise then when I strolled into one such local shop on Saturday, and [...]

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