'The good thing about being a writer is that you take your bad experiences and make them pay' I bought this book at a flea market organized by our friends one Saturday in the summer. Partially because I really liked the cover, partially because it was 50p and partially because I have not read anything …
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Judd Books was stop #2 on my October bookshop-crawl. It was my doom! Simple enough from the outside, tables and crates of cheap used books. Thankfully nothing caught my eye outside. But as soon as I entered I was lost. It is a kingdom of second hand and discounted new books. The place is so …
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'We are told not to panic, the most panic-inducing instruction known to man.' This book was one of my accidental acquisitions, I was searching for a book for my friend's birthday and there was 'second one half-price' so I thought, why not. I noticed it thanks to it's beautiful cover, I like green color a …
Housmans never made my original list, I'm not even sure why. But as it happens, fate decided and on one memorable Saturday in October this was where I decided to start my bookshop-crawl (I did not know it's a thing, until a very kind lady in Gay's the Word told me). The outside is very …
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October is over and I'm not sure if to be happy or sad. It was a difficult month, coming back to full-time regular work after six weeks of travelling was not easy. Especially if I spent the last Saturday in September on the beach only to come back to a Sunday in UK that required …
As always with Polish books let me start with rough translation of the title: Komeda. Personal Life of Jazz. It is difficult for me to judge how popular Komeda actually is outside of Poland, so just in case I sent you to Wikipedia. In Poland he is regarded as one of the key figures of …
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The votes for Trump and Brexit were not the ignorant mistakes of the misguided. They were declarations by millions of families that they will no longer tolerate the countries they love being run against their values and economic interests by a self-renewing elite. The surge in the vote for Corbyn also has to be seen …
