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 (2024), takes a closer look at groundbreaking and beautiful books from the early centuries of European printing. My next-next book is a novel set in the distant future.
Typographic Firsts
(2021) Bodleian Library Publishing
Remarkable Renaissance Books
(2025) Bodleian Library Publishing
Myriad: A Novel
(TBA)
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