@charliebush.bsky.social
Books. Bookshops. Booksellers. And Stone Circles. Ordinarily to be found at Blackwell's at Broad Street, Oxford.
A fair-haired man wearing glasses
The book Lost in the Garden, the jacket image shows a woman facing away with a garland of flowers in her hair
Huge news coming in overnight from the Nero Book Awards: Blackwell's bookseller Adam S. Leslie shortlisted for the Fiction Prize for his sensational and surreal Lost in the Garden.
We are immensely proud of Adam and his phenomenal novel.
Title: The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - Available in all good bookshops. Description - December 1st to 23rd: open the door to watch Gerorge Smiley reluctantly uncover a conspiracy as he wanders around the damp, dilapidated London of the seventies. (images of six of the doors, showing a stick figure os Smiley going about his business in shades of browny-gray) December 24th: Having solved the mystery and written his resignation letter, Smiley eats Christmas dinner alone. (image of Smiley at a table with a letter, unappetising portion of food and glass of wine, in browny-gray)
The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)
30.11.2024 10:10 — 👍 2365 🔁 646 💬 48 📌 47"Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.
'I do.'
'Which would you choose?'
'There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.'"
Ask and ye shall receive...
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If there is the interest, I certainly would like to! The automated bit broke on Twitter and I don't think there's a way of doing that on here. I could still do it "by hand".
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Rainy days call for board games!
Great to break out the brand new Oxford Monopoly with @blackwelloxford.bsky.social on the board. Imagine my delight with drawing the Community Chest card, where player has to give you a Blackwell's gift card.
Hard back copy of Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter on a window sill.
A figure in the distance in a snowy field, white branches reaching from the hedgerow
Seasonally pertinent reading is going well with Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter, which I think might just be sensationally brilliant. Four people struggling through life in the Big Freeze at the end of 1962.
20.11.2024 11:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👋hello and good evening
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Paperback edition of Dorothy L Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club from 1980s
Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery kind of afternoon.
15.11.2024 17:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very lucky to have had a few to choose from, but probably Sebastian Barry singing to us at the Borders Book Festival a few years ago and then how magical he was remembering about when we spoke again this year.
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Stack of six books: Raising Hare, Thunder City, Creation Lake, Karla's Choice and Our Evenings
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
My recent reading: three excellent novels, a wonderful piece of nature writing and a very welcome return to a brilliant children's series.
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