Pick’n’mix: choose – from any of the books in the photo or on the website – six for £50, ten for £75: see the Season Tickets on the home page of the website. From titles first published in 2008 to this year’s new ones; free postage, UK only. These deals were first offered during the Covid lockdowns, when they were a lifeline. Currently, the weather is good but sales are slow and I need to be going to the post office more regularly. Until I run out of them, posters (A1 size, eats up wall space) showing the book covers 2007–2026 will be sent free with every Season Ticket.
Below, Sheila Ramage in the bookshop/shed in Notting Hill that she ran for 45 years. ‘The loveliest person in the trade’ – Marius Kociejowski. She was generous and fun and immensely knowledgeable, and this place was about as good as human civilisation gets. It was formative. Sheila died in 2020. I’ll be talking about her briefly at 2 p.m. this Saturday, 26 July, in this very place, now the Bouda Gallery (132 Palace Gardens Terrace, W8 4RT), at an event organised by Steven Fowler. Free entry. Come.
Back in 2014 CBe published Ágota Kristóf’s brief memoir The Illiterate (translated by Nina Bogin) and brought back into print The Notebook (translated by Alan Sheridan). Still in print with CBe: The Illiterate and Trilogy (The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie). In August a collection of stories by Kristóf titled I Don’t Care (translated by Chris Andrews) will be published by Penguin, and in the next year (roughly) the Trilogy will also move to Penguin. For readers and for Kristóf (she died in 2011) this is good: she should have been on the Penguin modern classics list years ago. On 21 August the London Review Bookshop will host an event to celebrate the publication of the stories – tickets available here.
Thank you all for keeping this thing going.
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