Category Archives: bookshops

Promotion

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Charles Lambert

Two years ago I was at the Mantova Literary Festival to promote the Italian translation of The View from the Tower (Occasioni di Morte, published by Voland). I was talking with Marcello Fois, the Sardinian novelist and journalist Carlo Annese, … Continue reading →

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Cover story

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

If you’d like to know my views on buying books in Italy, as well as on the cultural relativism of book covers, all you have to do is click here. You will also find a shameless plug for Little Monsters, … Continue reading →

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Latest sighting of Little Monsters

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert

On a more cheerful note than the one struck by the previous post, here’s a photograph from Foyle’s, Charing Cross, London, UK (Europe, the World, the Solar System, the Universe… Remember?). Little Monsters is now a highlight! And just look … Continue reading →

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Disturbing stock

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Leonie Jackson, of Waterstones Walsall, has this to say about Little Monsters: I really enjoyed this book although it is slightly disturbing, particularly the relationship between the protagonist and her ‘uncle Joey’. The main story is set during the Second … Continue reading →

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Me, me, me, face out, piled high

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Jane’s been scouting for copies of Little Monsters in a few central London bookshops. Here’s what she found (from Borders and Waterstones). Now don’t say you don’t know where to buy a copy!

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Pansies

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

There’s an interesting piece in today’s Guardian CiF by Mark Lawson. Entitled How fiction lost the plot, it looks at the presumed sorry state of modern fiction publishing and runs through the usual suspects: cliquishness, discrimination, book prize juries descending … Continue reading →

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The Almost Corner Bookshop

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Once upon a time there was a bookshop in Rome called the Corner Bookshop. It still exists, but it’s moved slightly up from the river – wisely, as climatic things go – and is now the Almost Corner Bookshop. It’s … Continue reading →

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