Happy weekend one and all. I will be spending some of my Saturday at Charlbury Old Shed, which I heartily recommend to anybody visiting Oxfordshire. There’s cake AND donkeys (and other things, but those are two of my favourite things in the world).
I hope you have good plans – and, to accompany you on them, here’s a book, a blog post, and a link.
1.) The link – I loved this Guardian article about indie publishing – how indie publishers are often publishing the most interesting and innovative literature, getting prizes etc, and what motivates the people running these small presses.
2.) The book – On the latest episode of Good Reads (by BBC’s Radio 4), I was totally sold by what they said about The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt. I’m umming and ahhing over buying it, since it’s £12.99 for a book of 64 pages, but I’ll keep an eye out.
3.) The blog post – The first reviews of Angela Milne’s One Year’s Time (the latest addition to the British Library Women Writers series) are coming out, and I love this one over at Books and Wine Gums.