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Brian Phelan, Rest in Peace, 1934-2024
Brian Phelan died, at home, two days ago on May 10th. His stepson, Josh, was kind enough to let me know almost straight away. I had seen quite a bit of Brian over the last few months. We first met some twenty years ago. My wife, eldest and then only daughter and I went to…
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Pubs, foxes, Jamaica and James Bond, Haile Selassie and C.L.R. James
There’s reason to celebrate – the Fox Inn in Stourton has cancelled a Woodland Hunt’s end of season supper. The owners wouldn’t comment but it is not the first pub to disassociate itself from such organised crime groups. The Anchor in Exebridge no longer hosts the Quantock Staghounds, the Raven Inn in Powys decided not…
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Books Old & New: Hilary Mantel
For many years our firm of booksellers handled the sale of Dame Hilary’s archive. During our centenary last year I sent out monthly musings and this was my account of our dealings with her. … Finally, this is the story of the archive of Dame Hilary Mantel. I name her because she fully expected me…
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Books Old & New: one hundred years of bookselling
This is from the history page of our book business website. In 1923, just before his twentieth birthday, Bertram Rota started bookselling on the Charing Cross Road. From 1918 he had apprenticed to his uncles Percy and Arthur Dobell, in their father Bertram Dobell’s bookshop which dated back to 1876. From the outset, he specialised…
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