I recently read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and was struck by this passage in the biographical note about the author, Muriel Spark: I had not heard of James Thin, but sadly, when I looked them up, it turns out that this long-standing bookseller, stationer and publisher no longer exists, and their Edinburgh shop … Continue reading Muriel Spark’s Notebooks →
We can all relate… I popped into Paper Tiger. I had an excuse. An upcoming birthday requiring a card. But most of the time I was in there my eyes kept drifting off towards the notebooks. I have, I should say up front, a bit of a thing about notebooks. Lined, gridded, hardbacked, softcovered, any … Continue reading “In Praise of Notebooks” →
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…
