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RICHARD OVENDEN Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

RICHARD OVENDEN Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

by NRB | 27 Oct 2020 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Richard Ovenden, head of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, makes the case for libraries and the preservation of knowledge. Libraries, those repositories of human knowledge, have become a popular subject for writers. Collections built, sacked and resurrected feature in...
ANN ALLESTREE Barbara Pym: A passionate force. Reviewed by Walter Mason

ANN ALLESTREE Barbara Pym: A passionate force. Reviewed by Walter Mason

by NRB | 16 Jul 2015 | Non-fiction | 2 comments

This biography is a wonderfully eccentric wander through a rediscovered author’s life. Few writers generate a cult following that spans decades, and those who do tend to be the most unlikely suspects. One of the select few to inspire manic enthusiasm on the...
ROBERT DESSAIX What Days Are For. Reviewed by Stephen Sargent.

ROBERT DESSAIX What Days Are For. Reviewed by Stephen Sargent.

by NRB | 26 Mar 2015 | Non-fiction | 1 comment

Complex layers of discussion inform this memoir on the fragility of life. In 2011, the actions of two strangers saved Robert Dessaix from ‘being deported from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady’, as Christopher Hitchens...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on three historical events he’d have liked to see

by NRB | 21 Dec 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I used to entertain myself and (less so, I suspect) my friends by posing the question, ‘What three events in history would you wish to have been a witness to?’ I had a theory that the answers would provide a clue not only to their real interests but to the kinds of...
             

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