White Spines

Confessions of a Book Collector

White Spines
Nicholas Royle
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
15 Jul 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781784632137
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Editor' s Choice, The BooksellerA mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle' s passion for Picador' s fiction publishing from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. It explores the bookshops and charity shops, the books themselves, and the way a unique collection grew and became a literary obsession.
With apologies to other classics publishers, the truth is I' ve been a bit obsessed with this book since I saw novelist and short story writer Royle tweeting the ultimate in chic shelfies: a photo of his Picador fiction collection, which forms an array of 1,000 white spines spanning the 1970s-90s, and encompassing authors from Chinua Achebe to Fritz Zorn. In this blend of memoir and narrative non-fiction, he explores the bookshops and charity shops where he bought them, the books themselves, and how his collection grew to the point of literary obsession. * The Bookseller *
Nicholas Royle was born in Manchester in 1963. He is the author of seven novels, including: Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, and First Novel, and a short story collection, Mortality. He has edited sixteen anthologies, including A Book of Two Halves and Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing. He lives between London and Manchester and teaches creative writing at MMU.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784632137
Published: 15 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Salt Publishing
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 14mm
Pages: 256

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