Note: remember to scroll down to the bottom for picture highlights from the day. It may have been my second last day of EdBookFest, but I had a couple of real highlights to keep the blues away. To kick off was an event in my most favourite of … [Read more...]
EdBookFest 2011 Diary: Day #15 – Of small community living and Polish ghettos
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 longlist announced
March 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The longlist for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was announced earlier today. Funded by Arts Council England, and administrated for the first time this year by the Booktrust, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is the only UK prize … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: Constance Garnett ‘in the flesh’
September 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Constance Garnett 'in the flesh', originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. I've made no secret on RobAroundBooks of the fact that I'm madly in love with classic translator, Constance Garnett. And that love has only deepened recently, after I … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Friday 10th September 2010
September 10, 2010 By 10 Comments
You know, even though I’ve dived back into full-time lit blogging (and I’ve never been happier having done so) I thought about leaving out this online reading journal feature until I could come up with the ultimate format for it; a format which … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Remainder of Week 19, 2010
May 16, 2010 By 4 Comments
With no reading journal entry posted since Tuesday, you'd certainly be forgiven fellow reader for thinking that my reading had ground to a halt over these past few days. The fact is however, that my reading has continued unabated and it is only a … [Read more...]
On The Radar: A biography on Constance Garnett, a lazy Russian novel, an anthology celebrating Prague’s literary renaissance, and another New York literary anthology
May 7, 2010 By 8 Comments
“On the Radar” provides small incidental rundowns on books which I’ve discovered, but haven’t yet purchased. These are titles which I’ve either added to my wishlist, or am keeping a close eye on with a view to adding them. In addition, … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: Forgetting Detective ‘Tourettes’
January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Forgetting Detective 'Tourettes', originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. I'm usually pretty good at keeping a mental tag on all the books I purchase, but invariably over time, as I'm sure it is with most readers, I start to forget about a few … [Read more...]
Reading Journal: Thursday 19th November 2009
November 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
Arthur Miller joined me for breakfast this morning, in what is most definitely becoming a routine for the week. Please Don't Kill Anything is the third story from Presence: Collected Stories of Arthur Miller (Bloomsbury), and to be honest it is … [Read more...]