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caddymanHaving missed the Times free book on Monday, I was happy enough to pick up Freakonomics on Tuesday, The World According to Clarkson yesterday and Jane Austen: A Life today.
Someone has clearly gone for an eclectic collection.
The blurb on the back of today’s offering tells me that the author, Claire Tomalin, is Britain’s premier biographer. Odd then, that she is so unknown. I wonder what Elizabeth Longford and Alison Weir have to say about that?
I must say, though, joshing apart, that these are really nice (stylish) paperback volumes, published by Penguin in their classic no-nonsense style, colour coded by genre: Light Blue for ‘big ideas’, Green for mystery, Orange for ‘fantastic fiction’, Pink for distant lands, Dark Blue for real lives and Purple for viewpoints.
Someone has clearly gone for an eclectic collection.
The blurb on the back of today’s offering tells me that the author, Claire Tomalin, is Britain’s premier biographer. Odd then, that she is so unknown. I wonder what Elizabeth Longford and Alison Weir have to say about that?
I must say, though, joshing apart, that these are really nice (stylish) paperback volumes, published by Penguin in their classic no-nonsense style, colour coded by genre: Light Blue for ‘big ideas’, Green for mystery, Orange for ‘fantastic fiction’, Pink for distant lands, Dark Blue for real lives and Purple for viewpoints.