Every Christmas we have a family competition to see who’s found the weirdest book over the past year. Has to have been found in a 2nd hand shop - no googling. This is the ‘best’ so far:

Umberto Eco’s home library:

There’s a perfect poem on the subject. “Love is proved in the letting go.”

Coming up to the anniversary of The Liberation of Paris. Just finished Patrick Bishop’s ‘The Shame and the Glory’ on the subject. Recommended.

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Nick Benjamin of Lewes in Sussex has made me some guitars in the past and is currently making me a guitar to be tuned D to D (below). Nick is a genius and thoroughly nice bloke.

A rare photo of Sam laughing.

Dürer’s dad. Looks a cunning, old boy.