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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