

it seems more of a representation of how booklovers really live, and not how interior designers would have us live.

but i preferred the pictures in Books Do Furnish a Room. nor helpful to those of us in tiny apartments.Īnd i admit i haven't read the text in the book, just ogled the photos, and reading its reviews on here, it sounds like a good book, as far as content and text. and they intrigue me, because i know there has got to be a better solution to how i live now than:Īnd there's Books Make a Home: Elegant Ideas for Storing and Displaying Books, which is great, as far as drooly book-porn goes, but basically, its suggestions are: there are so many interior design books about how to live with and display the books you have. Sometimes when i am forced to shelve the art cart in the morning, i get a little distracted. The same month, I brought out a literary trumps card game called The Writers Game with Laurence King Publishing. My book on book towns around the world, 'Book Towns', was published by Frances Lincoln in March 2018 and 'Shelf Life, a selection of essays about books and reading, in October 2018 by The British Library.

'Improbable Libraries', a survey of the most unusual and intriguing libraries around the world, was published by Thames & Hudson in April 2015 and 'A Book of Book Lists' in October 2017 by The British Library. I run Shedworking ( which inspired the book 'Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution' published by Frances Lincoln, The Micro Life ( and curate Bookshelf ( which was published as a book in 2012 by Thames & Hudson as 'Bookshelf'. I am a professional blogger and journalist, part of The Independent newspaper's online team in the UK. Next book after that: Menus That Made History (Kyle/Octopus, September, 2019) Next book: Edward Lear & The Pussycat: Famous Writers and Their Pets (August, 2019)
