First Rule of Book Club
Some books I love & recommend
Siddharta
– 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
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My books
I write about typography and the history of books. My forthcoming book, Remarkable Renaissance Books (2025), takes a closer look at groundbreaking and beautiful books from the early centuries of European printing. My first non-fiction book is a novel set in the Middle Ages and the far distant future, and tentatively titled, The Book of Hours.
Typographic Firsts
(2021) Bodleian Library Publishing
Remarkable Renaissance Books
(2025) Bodleian Library Publishing
The Book of Hours
(TBA)
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