With the forthcoming film starring Leonardo DiCaprio beginning filming shortly, the buzz around The Great Gatsby is sure to keep on building. Read the article here
It’s time to dust of your shades and get to the pool. Summer’s here and you’re going to need something to read whilst you pose stylishly at the cafe/beach/yacht/park/garden/o ffice (...
The Great Gatsby received mostly positive reviews, when it came out but not the commercial success of Fitzgerald’s previous novels This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. The book...
What’s the best thing about this book? It was published in 1991! They may not have got it totally right then, but maybe more so now.
Ok – this one’s not for sale through me I’m afraid. It’s a first edition copy of The Great Gatsby, First Edition, First Printing from 1925. It’s an excellent example o...
Hogarth’s collection of over 150 recipes was designed for American women living in England who were servant-less and were looking for quick and easy to prepare menus. Each section contains a br...
July is here and it’s a cracking summer read. Imagine long cocktail parties overlooking the sea, vintage fashion and old motor cars. The Great Gatsby is available now in this beautiful hardback...
This morning, The Book Club has launched a brand new service called ‘In Print’. It collates all of the books featured, and loved, by the UK’s leading fashion and lifestyle magazines and offers them f...
(not sure why she walking in the dark through snow. In my head Long day = Lots of light)
What do you do when you have a large collection of books on Islamic history to house? Obviously you build your entire home out of bookcases, and design everything else around their proportions. Kazuy...
One of my favourites – how can you beat this cover for Dennis Wheatley’s ‘The Prisoner in the Mask’?? To put it in some perspective, here are some interviews with Wheatley fro...
A tool I’ve used for some time is the Wayback Machine. This is an online service which lets you look back at websites in the past – it works by retrieving data stored by ‘spiders...
The Book Club is very pleased to announce that we’re now listed as the first UK bookseller on ‘Designers and Books’. Designers and Book lists books which key Designers feel have hel...
Just one of the things The Book Club does is to provide books for special events and parties. We have some of the most amazing photography and fashion books and they can be in demand from people who ...
I’ve been a huge fan of the Forgotton Bookmarks website for a long time. The owner collates what he finds inserted in old books, from pictures to business cards, poems to used tickets. I came ...
Those reading this month’s Book of the Month may have met Ahmed Murr already. In this beatufully tragic and moving book, we see Ahmed’s story alongside the grainy portrait of him below. H...
Follow my blog with Bloglovin As soon as you start the book, spend a little while familiarising yourself with the map which is printed on the first couple of pages. I’ve added a similar one her...
A Million Shillings – Escape from Somalia June’s Book of the Month tells a fascinating and shocking story, chronicling the exodus of migrants and refugees from Somalia to the Arabian Peni...
Bookplates make such a personal and luxurious addition to your book collection. Should you have 10 or 1000 treasured books, your bookplate will ensure that they stay with you forever – but, should yo...
There’s hope for all collectors that that little gem is out there hiding somewhere! A 1949 First Edition copy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was recently found nestling at the bottom of a c...
This is the clever new campaign from Penguin Books Malaysia, developed by Saatchi & Saatchi. The book in this version is ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but there are alte...
Children’s author Mini Grey explains what’s behind her pictures in this article. Here’s a preview of her pictures – equally funny, interesting and beautiful, I’m sure y...
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