The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews (Signed First Edition)

Biles, Adam; Editor (Sylvia Whitman, Introduction)

ISBN 10: 1805300032 / ISBN 13: 9781805300038

Published by Canongate Books, Paris, 2023

About this Item

8vo., 237pp. Beautiful As New First Edition of this anthology of some of the legendary bookstores best interviews of today's most noted authors. Bound in blue cloth with white lettering. No dust-jacket as issued Square, tight and remarkably clean throughout with no discernible wear. Signed by the editor on the title page. Also Also generically inscribed and signed on the half-title page, (in person), by Shakespeare & Company's dynamic owner, Sylvia Whitman, who also wrote the introduction. A gorgeous collectable copy.

Seller Inventory # 017744

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Canongate Books, Paris
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805300032
• ISBN 13: 9781805300038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthology/Short Stories
  • Signed/Inscribed
  • Books About Books

About this title

Synopsis

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world’s most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it’s long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers.

In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and later novelist and literary director Adam Biles have conducted several hundred interviews with writers, ranging from prize-winning novelists to visionary non-fiction writers.

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews is a selection of the best of these interviews from the last decade. Packed with warmth, sensitivity and humour, it’s a celebration of the greatest writers of our age and an insight into the lives and thoughts behind some of today’s most talked-about books.

About the Author

Adam Biles is an English writer and translator based in Paris. He is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, from where he hosts their weekly podcast, and where he curated the podcast series Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses. Feeding Time, his first novel, was published by Galley Beggar Press and was a book of the year for the Observer and Irish Times. It was published by Editions Grasset in France in 2018 to great critical acclaim. His second novel Beasts of England, an anarchic sequel to Orwell's Animal Farm, will be published by Galley Beggar Press next year.