Category Archives: Books

January Newsletter: The Boy and the Heron, the Camera as a Curious Child and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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From The Wind in the Willows to The Velveteen Rabbit: The Most Wonderful Books for Children

Reading is something deeply personal and although there are many good children’s books, some may appeal to us more than others from various reasons. From The Wind in the Willows to The Velveteen Rabbit: the most wonderful books for children. Read More

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December Newsletter: The Eight Mountains, Confessions of a Bookseller and Graffiti on the Train

December newsletter: Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains), Confessions of a Bookseller and Graffiti on the Train Read More

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November Newsletter: Autumn Sea, The Maltese Falcon, and Budding Imagination

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Read Instead…in Print

Cary Grant’s Suit: Nine Movies That Made Me the Wreck I Am Today has humour in it. Just like a good film (that is not a comedy) has humour in it (like Hitchcock’s). Just like life (amidst hardships, tragedy, rises and falls) has humour in it. Todd McEwen writes from a very personal point of view. Movies are truly woven into his life and it’s absolutely thrilling to read how he meanders through some of the movies that have marked him in one way or another. Read More

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