#Books

As you may know, @adam_macqueen's debut novel Beneath the Streets is a dramatisation of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal, in which the leader of the Liberal Party hired assassins to kill
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I saw a tweet yesterday that isn’t sitting well with me, as a person who buys new books for an indie bookstore. It boiled down to ‘I asked for X,
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Random Picture(or not?) question thread for book lovers.RT your answers What type of books do you read? 2. Preference? 3. Who's your favorite Bestseller? 4. Here's one for the Christian
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Since this is a rare moment when @EvaAlton decided to speak her mind publically and tell us some important things, I’ll pitch in.After you read her thread, you will understand
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It's that time of the year again! Changing leaves, pumpkin spice, and another Christie's sale of Islamic objects with dubious provenance records! https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/a-kufic-quran-section-probably-k
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Non-art update for a change. Recently, I've made a heavy move towards a less digital life, one that engages my brain away from screens more often. I've started trying to
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I just find it so interesting that in all these chats about inequality and “how bad it’s going to be for Africa” none of these commentators have mentioned the regimes
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Doing a small publishing startup was not viable. Most fail. With no funding, I sold a house to start @GarudaPrakashan. This is why. A civilization will not survive if we
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Yo fam.New thing There are lots of great books passed around amongst bitcoiners today, which help us to better understand & appreciate the many facets & implications of #Bitcoin ,
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I really wish the Wall Street Journal had read Proof of Corruption, because all of this info is in the book. I don't know why WSJ is darkly noting what
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I've been thinking about this loads. There is a push/pull btwn reviewers and publishers. I'm sympathetic to both sides but what I really care about is that the earth is
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Today I'm looking back at a rather forgotten pulp genre... swamp pulp! Raw nature was the main theme of swamp pulp; a world where the heat and the smell of
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I'm NOT allowed to throw Molotov cocktails into reply-all emails anymore, so y'all are getting a thread.Digital textbooks are a scam propagated by book publishers and university admin. Book publishers,
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Republicans will turn a blind eye & too many in the press will focus on “tone.” But history books will say: In April of 2020, when the pandemic had already
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The holy grail of comic books. Faust series ranging from FIRST, second, third, and fourth pressing. Have 1st pressing for nearly all issues, and duplicates of those ranging from 2-4
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For those who missed the drama yesterday - here's the digest. I was made aware that @BBCRadio4 were airing a long series about ghosts which was using the title of
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