"There's nothing quite so lovely as a brightly burning book." The Badger
Friday, December 12, 2008
Burning Books: sport travel and leisure interests
This is a screen-grab from the Australian site for Palgrave Macmillan. They're good eggs, on the whole, with good ideas, but I confess I'm not sure what to make of the fact that they've listed my book in "sport travel and leisure interests". I picture a chap in a sports coat smoking a pipe. 'Well, yes, I do enjoy a good fire, but it's more of a hobby really...'
I am a bookseller with Hordern House Rare Books in Sydney, Australia, where I first became interested in the culture of book burning while researching a catalogue of utopias and imaginary voyages. My first book, Burning Books, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008.
Together with Mark Tewfik, I am currently working on a picture book investigating the graffiti written on bombs during the Second World War.
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