If you want a short, savage novel about a frozen post-nuclear world, look no further than Anna Kavan’s magisterial Ice (1967). Unsettling, hallucinogenic, it feels like Kafka, Baudelaire and Brian Aldiss have taken a violent amount of drugs and written a book together.
'It’s dark because you’re trying too hard. Lightly, child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.' Aldous Huxley
David Gauld's portrait (c1920) is an exercise in aesthetic values; it is reputed to depict the actress Irene Vanburgh, Oscar Wilde's own choice for Gwendolen in the first performance of 'The Importance of Being Ernest,' which opened at St. James's Theatre, 14th February 1895.
It's #buyastrangerabook day tomorrow.
A lovely & positive thing when people buy books for total strangers and vice versa!
It's been a thing I've been doing every Wednesday on here since May 2018.
Hope you can join in tomorrow.
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🌺 COVER REVEAL 🌺 Time to grow your collection of covers for Toni Morrison classics. TAR BABY will be out in the world soon. Featuring a new introduction by Sasha Bonét and cover designed by Perry De La Vega.
#readmoremorrison#tonimorrison#CoverReveal
.@PenguinUKBooks has launched a "major new" initiative to support independent bookshops across the UK during the National Year of Reading.
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Britain believes that China would negotiate the release of the imprisoned Hong Kong newspaper owner, Jimmy Lai - but only if he agrees to be silent.
Exclusive in @thetimes by @RichardJSpencer and me.
https://t.co/u5zMftCiHs
During WW1, Clare Attwood was commissioned by the Women's Work Sub-committee of the Imperial War Museum to produce several pictures depicting the activities of the Women's Voluntary Service. This work (1919) shows volunteers filing papers in the ballroom at Devonshire House
Another Joyce! Born #OTD in 1910, Joyce Grenfell (d. 1979). Quintessentially British actor, star of ENSA, comedienne and monologist, very much of her time. Insight into her experiences found in these letters to her friend Ginny Graham, Hodder & Stoughton 1997, ed Janie Hampton.