Magpies Books

28/09/2015

Your library is your sanctuary filled with the objects you love most in the world - your books. A great book collection can take a lifetime...

25/09/2015

"My father wanted me to become a boxer, my mother wanted me to become an engineer, and I think I found a way to mix those two visions together—in poetry." Rigoberto González, recipient of the 2014 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, is featured in "The Way of the Worksho…

25/09/2015

24/09/2015

Born in Lebanon, Vénus Khoury-Ghata has lived in France since 1972. She has published forty books of novels, poetry, and translations, which earned her the 2011 Goncourt Prize for her entire body of work. Four volumes of poems have appeared in English since 2000 thanks to talented fellow poet and tr…

24/09/2015

Situated on Butcher Row, Salisbury, is The Last Bookshop. The bookshop sells remainder books for £5 or less. Find out more here!

24/09/2015

House in Felpham, Sussex, where poet wrote words that became hymn Jerusalem, purchased for £520,000 for public use by the Blake Society

23/09/2015

Martin Vargic's intricate cartography is basically p**n for book lovers.