Our reviewer of two new French memoirs Consent (Springora) and La familia granda (Kouchner) questions the legacy of the May '68 social revolution and applauds the media's treatment of the recent French national debate.
Read now:
https://t.co/mulygSlkLC #consent#french#review
This Thursday!
A Q&A with Dr Louis Monroy-Santander, an expert in post-conflict peace-building in Europe and South America from the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in #Bogotá.
Sign up:
https://t.co/AYuDuz6VY7 #live
You marry a writer.
Worse, a memoirist. All is well until you divorce, un-amicably.
An unprecedented French legal dispute made MBR founder @lucykenningham ponder the near-impossibility of non-fiction.
https://t.co/Zfljb9cPBY #emmanuelcarrere#memoir#autofiction#writing
"A vulgar, sad little book" wrote the
@spectator in 1955.
'Bonjour Tristesse', published 1954, was an overnight sensation in France. But its English translation, not renewed until 2014, was grossly inaccurate.
The reason? Patriarchy.
https://t.co/Pf4sanx2Ce #review#mbr
Style requires substance.
The problem with Carmen Maria Machado's trendy memoir 'In the Dream House', is that it lacks the latter.
Read @lucy_rmm's brilliant piece 'Dream House As Review' for how exactly 'In the Dream House' fails its readers.
https://t.co/GkSQMNH8ZH
Excited to announce Landy is the next musician playing on our Live Music Thursdays event, doing an unplugged set. Come along before 8pm to get your socially distanced seats, drinks & order food if you like.
Listen to his tunes here:
https://t.co/id66F818Mi
#gig#unplugged
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man." T.S. Eliot.
Shelf Love: Several Fascinating Facts About Libraries
https://t.co/FEsxCITxfm
Tonight Adam Gilleard plays an acoustic set at our shop! Excited to hear some live music and have some #covidsafe gig atmosphere going on again. Free and open till 11pm so come along to hear some good music and enjoy our local craft beer #gig#livemusic#smallvenue#acoustic
Support your local bookshop and join Morocco Bound next week (16th Sept) for a talk on The Psychology of Attraction with Colin Richards. Tickets £15, available now > https://t.co/GrwQrlOfO6 @BookshopBound
“if hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails” - Viktor E Frankl on why his book Man’s Search For Meaning had sold so successfully
YES!! Huge congratulations to my amazing wife! Her extraordinary talent is no secret, but only a few people see the sheer hard work that goes into making her books as good as they are. I could not be happier to see her determination & brilliance recognised & rewarded in this way.