Fifty Forgotten Books Kate Davis

Fifty Forgotten Books Kate DavisFifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished second hand shops, a love letter to bookshops and bookselling and a browsers dream wish list of often overlooked and unloved novels, short story collections, poetry collections and

bitter man - is disappointed at what life has brought him and envious of

with an eye to the cosmic as well as the comic

bringing a vast range of contemporary and historical perspectives into play in poems private and public about the two world wars and the revolutions in Russia and the Empire

I urge you to do so now

Christi Merrill on Edwin Gentzler

the humour and the heartbreak and the poetic description of this

In her prize-winning work 'The Story Never Told'

From Ferdinand Dennis

Destiny in My Hands

and whose next-door neighbours torment him with their noise

no need to bring any clothes

Pascale Petit trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and tutors for Tate Modern