“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...]
On The Radar: Improving the craft, writer’s notebooks, New York, and European fiction
September 17, 2010 By 9 Comments
Bookstore Community 1:0 Illegal Street Vendor
April 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a bit of an incurable passion for anything ‘New York’ (and that’s despite having never visited the city, and living 3288 miles away in Scotland :o)). One of the ways I feed my passion for the Big Apple is … [Read more...]
A ‘bookmooch’ that made me start a new mini reading challenge
January 14, 2009 By 6 Comments
I adore BookMooch, that amazing ‘little’ social book-swapping site where people can both unload spent titles and load up on new ones. I’ve been ‘mooched from’ and ‘mooched’ quite a few ‘gems’ from there now, but my latest … [Read more...]
Strand Book Store NY – Wow!..but is it the most impressive?
November 29, 2008 By 4 Comments
So I'm trawling Flickr looking for a suitable 'New York skyline' picture to go with this post, and I stumble across a set of images (of which the one above from luisvilla was one), of the Strand Book Store in New York; I was instantly enamored to the … [Read more...]
The Guardian: “A literary crawl of New York”
November 29, 2008 By 1 Comment
Despite having never visited the place (yet!), I make no apologies for my incurable obsession with anything New York. I've spoken about this obsession on the blogosphere often (and featured my favourite New York 'blogger' Teri Tynes as Reader of the … [Read more...]