TextandCo

29/11/2022

We would agree - definitely the love child of Wodehouse, Waugh and Le Carre.

In his “Slough House” thrillers, the screwups save the day—and there’s a very fine line between comedy and catastrophe.

31/07/2022

We agree - Mr. Ripley is so funny! 🖤🖤🖤

I have a fairly large crime fiction library at home and had access to a vastly larger one still for several years while I was working days at the Center for Fiction, in the old building on Forty-Se…

17/07/2022

Have you met Merricat yet?

One hundred and one years ago today, Shirley Jackson was born. During her lifetime, she wrote “The Lottery,” and The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the …

01/06/2022

Gentle, poetic and so beautiful. You are going to love these guys 🟡

01/06/2022

Eat Weeds - read this book and find out how you CAN engage with wild food sources, how you CAN find a sustainable way to interact with and learn from your surroundings, caring for ecologies while transforming your neighbourhood into an edible adventure.

30/05/2022

I suppose this is a ghost story, of sorts. Many ghosts, not just one….

Wreck - is an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of an artwork and a thrilling introduction to a singular new voice in non-fiction. Brilliant!!

27/05/2022

Imagine a Museum of Lost Art. It would contain more masterpieces than all the world’s museums combined. From the treasures of Rome to the library of Alexandria, from the religious art smashed in the Reformation to the masterpieces taken in the Gardner heist, from the looting of the Iraq Museum and hundreds of thousands of archaeological sites to the ancient structures and statues smashed by ISIS, from the hundreds of thousands of treasures seized by the N***s to the millions of objects stolen, hidden or destroyed throughout the modern era and never found, a Museum of Lost Art provides a cutting reminder of the fragility of the world’s treasures.
A fascinating account and a ripper read!

23/05/2022

In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew crosses the Atlantic, exiled from English polite society. In British Columbia, he enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and for a split second all is darkness, the notes of a violin echoing unnaturally through the air. The experience shocks him to his core!

From the wonderful Emily St John Mandel, a tale of time travel, life and love.

PS you can listen to Emily on the ABC Book show (today’s) where she talks about this new book, the pandemic and Station 11 in book book and television forms.

22/05/2022

You need to read this book!!!
It is dedicated to the men, women and children who lost their lives in Libya and in the Mediterranean Sea; to their families, who suffered alongside them; and to the survivors, who will never forget. 💙

21/05/2022

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

How about some Austen after your Democracy sausage? It’s the perfect reset!

20/05/2022

The Journey of Humanity - The origins of Wealth and Inequality. 🔴

19/05/2022

Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman….thanks to the Sprakkar*

*an ancient Icelandic word meaning extraordinary or outstanding women.