Imagine this. An email, late one winter afternoon, asks if you’d be happy to receive two large boxfuls of brand new debut novels, and if you’d read them in return for what, on any view, would be described as a fair fee. Finding no reason to refuse (who would?) you accept. The deliveries arrive and…
My copy of David Mamet’s ‘Three Uses of the Knife’ is underlined in places, and certain pages are folded over. Sometimes when I go to take it down from the shelf, I feel like a cross-country skier reaching for wax. But rather than functioning as a piece of kit, it’s a book that answers questions…
In her memoir, ‘What Language Do I Dream In?’ Elena Lappin recounts the tale of a novel being returned to her, years after she and her family had left behind their home in Prague. I’ll leave you to read the story in its entirety (and if you’ve not already done so, would urge you to…
To mark the forthcoming 10th anniversary of the relaunch of Vintage Classics, Vintage invited each of its authors to select their 5 favourite books from the catalogue. The wonderful promise made in return was: ‘Whenever you press your copy into a friend’s hands or find it has wandered off your shelf onto someone else’s, let…
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