Torquemada and the Torturous Literary Puzzle
Latest blog post at Litro.co.uk… It might be a sign of the digital times, or an indicator of economic gloom, but working in a second hand bookshop can be slow. We have many techniques for passing the hours: Theatre-Direction Bingo (works especially well on a Saturday night in the West End), Weirdest Book Title competitions [...]
Book Clubs: Gangs In Fiction
Latest blog post at www.litro.co.uk… Gangs – it’s a great theme. Hasn’t everyone been in one at some point? We obsess about gangs as kids – starting them, desperate to be included in them, mortified at being barred from them. (Mine was called The Bourne Lane Bunch. We met in secret in the hen shed. [...]
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