Tag: reading
The Wombles to the rescue
The Bookseller, 14 September 1974
Have Time for Books
The Bookseller, 30 January 1960.
‘Why would you want Bertie to grow older?’
David Robinson with Alexander McCall Smith: a few passages from yesterday’s Scotsman :
‘Interesting new publications’
A newspaper advertisement from the end of 1966. In a time when Princes Street, Edinburgh, still had shops.
Helen Campbell Hughes
On Saturday 20th September 2025, with my friend Callum, we walked some of this path [I can no longer walk beyond 5 miles without the risk of having a seizure]: … Continue reading Helen Campbell Hughes
BUMPUS BOOKSHOP
I would have loved to have browsed this bookshop and to have chatted with John G Wilson! 7th November 1958, Bumpus Bookstore [Getty Image] The Times, 3rd July 1981: John … Continue reading BUMPUS BOOKSHOP
A consummate human being – wise, thoughtful, irrepressibly good-natured
l was sorry to read in the Scotsman of the recent death of Kenneth Calman. I was fortunate to meet Ken. This was when he was giving a talk in … Continue reading A consummate human being – wise, thoughtful, irrepressibly good-natured