Penguin Book

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A wise woman (my mother) asked me what was up with the vintage-looking Penguin cover that read “Go Away I’m Reading” in my last post. I always do as my mother tells me (right mom?…

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Paul Hogarth by William Smith in 1969 When I was a student at Cambridge Art School, Paul Hogarth RA (1917 – 2001), the famous reportage artist, was a visiting lecturer. He encouraged us to 'go out and draw' and 'use our eyes'. Good advice. It really hones your observational skills. Paul Hogarth was born in 1917 in Kendal, Cumbria. In 1923 his family and he moved to Manchester. He attended the Manchester School Of Art from 1934 to 1936, where he became involved in the Artists' International…

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Ever evolving and always beautifully designed My love of books goes way back. I would happily hide away in The Exchange Bookshop in Dalkey for hours at a time. It was amazing how far my pocket money would go on second hand books in the 70’s! Most evenings the owner Michael would have to extract […]

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts." 📖Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.

Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his 'rosy crucifixion'. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the…

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