Cover Love: The (RED) series from Penguin Classics

If you follow my Cover Love series then you would know that I have a bit of a thing for typography-based cover designs. In the past I’ve praised the virtues of the ‘Art of the Novella’ series from Melville House, hailed the glory that is [...]

Daily Bookshot: Yay turns to Heyyyy!!

I’ve got a bone to pick with Penguin Classics )

Daily Bookshot: Hans is in the House (But Not for Long)

Hans is in the House (But Not for Long), originally uploaded by Robert Burdock.

I finally got my hands on Hans Fallada’s seminal novel Alone in Berlin (Penguin UK ISBN: 9781846140822) [note: published in the US as Every Man Dies Alone (Melville House ISBN: 9781933633633)], but sadly I don’t see it staying in my hands for [...]

Daily Bookshot: Penguin’s 4 Shilling Modern Classic

If only they cost this today.

Reading Journal: Mon 29th June 2009

07:00 – Start of a new week but not a new book. I got snagged up with something important at the end of last night, so I never did get a chance to finish Tsotsi [forethoughts]. I’ve drowned my sorrows about that this morning by reading a couple more shorts from the Mary-Ann Constantine collection [...]

Reading Journal: Thu 25th June 2009

Last night – So the last thing I did last night was go ahead and read the Scorsese’s foreword for Shusaku Endo’s Silence (Peter Owen). It’s not long but it’s punchy, with one of the main features being a challenge by Scorsese on the held belief that questioning and faith are mutually incompatible. It’s a [...]

Daily Bookshot: The Russians Are Here!

Today’s Bookshot? A little lot that should fill a nice gap in my Russian literature section

RobAroundBookLists: Penguin Classics – ‘100 most popular’

No series of books is probably closer to my heart than the Penguin Classics so I’m delighted for this week’s RobAroundBookLists slot to be featuring Amazon’s 100 most popular Penguin Classics (in terms of sales rank), as reproduced by Peter Steinberg on one of my favourite reading list sites – Flashlight Worthy (a place I [...]

Coralie Bickford-Smith spoils us, again…grrr!!

While I was in Waterstones (Edinburgh) a couple of Saturday’s ago, I noticed a new redesigned range of hardback classics on one of their end displays. The range is really something to behold (errr..and hold). Sumptuous in look and velvety in texture (the covers, not the page )), this is a collection you can’t [...]