First Rule of Book Club

Some books I love & recommend

The Post-Office Girl
– Stefan Zweig

All Men Are Mortal
– Simone de Beauvoir

Job
– Joseph Roth

The Wall
– Marlen Haushofer

The Book of Strange…
– Michel Faber

Siddhartha
– Hermann Hesse

Kindred
– Octavia E Butler

The Woman Destroyed
– Simone de Beauvoir

I Who Have Never…
– Jacqueline Harpman

The Song of Kieu
– Nguyễn Du

Travels with My Aunt
– Graham Greene

Blindness
–José Saramago

Wonderful Fool
– Shusaku Endo

Stoner
– John Williams

Steppenwolf
– Hermann Hesse

The Sparrow
– Mary Doria Russell

East of Eden
– John Steinbeck

A Woman
– Sibilla Aleramo

The Winter of Our…
– John Steinbeck

The Persian Expedition
– Xenophon

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My books

I write about typography and the history of books. My latest book, Remarkable Renaissance Books, takes a closer look at groundbreaking and beautiful books from the early centuries of European printing. My first work of non-fiction is a collection of short stories tentatively titled, The Book of Hours.

Remarkable Renaissance Books

Bodleian Library

Typographic Firsts

Bodleian Library

The Book of Hours

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