I spend a fair bit of time going through the fiction bookshelves at various Oxfams (my favourites are in Chiswick, Oxford St Giles and Cirencester), looking for hidden gems that I might have missed. So a lot of my picks are the most random finds, with compelling titles and fun covers (can you tell I’m…
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Book Review: The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams
I fell in love with this book from the moment I came across it. First, with the plot: the lives and work of the invisible women who used to bind the books printed by the Oxford University Press during the First World War. Second, with the location: Jericho is my favourite part of Oxford, just…
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