Great selection - I think I’ve really enjoyed 14 of these. Very impressed that you have The Luminaries in there, a book that is probably owned by half the population of New Zealand and has actually been read by 12 of them. FYI I’m not one of the 12 - dnf!

Agree Paula, this is not a book to rush, but one to linger over and take a page at a time. It repels a speedy review!

Hopefully I have saved you from wasting your time with her second!

Can I nominate Universality by Natasha Brown? Winner of the “what was the point of all that?” Prize.

I’m curious - what is the book about a painter in New Zealand?

This made me seek out my @faberbooks.bsky.social copy of Arcadia. Always love that you get to see the original cast which for this play included Rufus Sewell, Felicity Kendall and Bill Nighy.

Perhaps Blackwells were lying?

I was trying to buy the New Directions editions but Blackwells in the UK have sold out of Vol III & IV already.

Should have read that two days ago, on the 18th of November….

Apparently after Kathleen died Tissot abandoned the house and left behind all his paintings, paints and materials. He was so devastated. The house is just around the corner from the Beetles Abbey Road crossing. The blue plaque on the wall is for Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who lived there before Tissot.

Here’s a picture of Eric Kennington at the front of his wonderfull book “Drawings of the RAF”. A simply stunning collection of his art work.

Excellent!

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Very happy to see this, but it has made me reflect that it is more than twenty years since my last fat rascal.