In the papers….
The pick of the weekend….
The Independent tells how winning the first Booker Prize didn’t change the life of PH Newby;
The NY Times book review devotes a page to Upton Sinclair - the American socialist who wrote Oil!, the book upon which Daniel Day-Lewis’ There Will Be Blood movie is based. Did you know it was originally self-published and banned in Boston for obscenity?
Some ancient books have turned up in China and no-one can understand them. They’re probably about a young boy who has a scar on his forehead and becomes a wizard…. no!
A big collection of black history books.
