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LLG Books: Three Books That Are Creating A Buzz by Karen Wheeler

April 28, 2012 Books & writers

The economy, the weather and what is being described politically as ‘the feel bad factor’: there has never been a better time to stay at home, switch off the television and read a good book. Given that over 60,000 copies have sold in the past week, it’s a fair bet that many are currently tied […]

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Guest Blog: The Pursuit of Happiness Through Books: Part 2 by Karen Wheeler

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Karen Wheeler is the author of three humorous books about her life in France, including her latest, Tout Soul: The Pursuit of Happiness in Rural France. Her memoirs are often described as ‘better than anti-depressants.’ In yesterday’s guest blog post, she wrote about three books that she considers to be ‘literary Prozac’. Here, in the second […]

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Guest Blog: The Pursuit of Happiness Through Books: Part 1 by Karen Wheeler

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Recently, I have read a great deal on the subject of happiness – everything from self-help manuals to scientific tomes on the chemistry of the brain. I write books – memoirs about my life in France – that (I’m told) make people feel happy and that are often described as ‘better than anti-depressants’. But when […]

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LLG Books & Tech: Khoya storytelling app

January 28, 2012 Books & writers

One of the unexpected discoveries that I made at DLD wasn’t an introduction or a technological advancement, but came whilst I was in the audience for a panel of developers talking about new apps. Amongst the men (& a 16yr old boy-entrepreneur) talking about their disruptive new ideas, was an Indian girl who had brought […]

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LLG Books: Cook books for Christmas

December 17, 2011 Books & writers

I may be filling up my Kindle with vintage Georgette Heyer and the Game of Thrones series, but I am still collecting cookery books like there’s no tomorrow. In the same way that I am starting to find reading newspapers online unsatisfactory, I don’t want to read cookbooks online either.

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LLG Travels: Community Bookstore, Park Slope Brooklyn

November 21, 2011 American Shops

I spent my last Sunday in New York in Park Slope, Brooklyn with lovely Lola. Good times. After lunch she whisked me smartly to Community Bookstore for book foraging. It’s one of those stores where every book entices, where the edit is so good and clever that to be honest, there was barely a book […]

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My Erdem dress…& a shopping dilemma

November 20, 2011 Books & writers

I wasn’t expecting to see English designers in New York the other week but, from Christopher Kane to Jordan Askill, they were out in force. First night in from Miami I headed to Alice Temperley’s private cocktail in a loft downtown to celebrate her beautiful book from Rizzoli, True British: Alice Temperley. (Book launch photos […]

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LLG Books: Pop-up London by Jennie Maizels

October 17, 2011 Books & writers

I adore pop-up books, and the way in which the good ones don’t just pop but tell a multi-layered story.  Fabulous illustrator Jennie Maizels’ Pop-up London doesn’t just show London’s glorious architecture, but tells the history of the city too. From the front, it’s all about the buildings, and snippets of clever info — the […]

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Reading — and keeping — books in the digital age

September 25, 2011 Books & writers

There were over 2000 books in the London flat before I sold it last summer.  They got hauled to my father’s garage where they were stashed them for safe keeping until I decided where I would live long-term. (Last August I intended that to be New York but after I had shipped cases of my […]

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Books: The MS Readathon for my Australian Readers

September 9, 2011 Books & writers

“The MS Readathon, the iconic children’s reading-based fundraiser, is calling for literary-minded adults to get involved and raise much-needed funds for multiple sclerosis. Take up The Novel Challenge and register yourself – or, if you’re a member of a book-club, join as a team!” I’m a bit late on this, as obviously I don’t live […]

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