Peake video

Check out this BBC interview that Sebastian Peake gave on his father Mervyn Peake. We are currently hard at work on a radically revised version of Vast Alchemies, an authorised biography of Mervyn Peake by Peter Owen author G. Peter Winnington. Look for it this fall!

Know your Peake:
The Man and His Art (edited by Winnington)
Boy In Darkness
A Book of Nonsense

Guilty Review

A little behind on this one but here you go anyway – a readysteadybook review of Anna Kavan's Guilty.

Local Shout-Out

The Man Who Planted Trees is currently a recommended title at our local branch of Waterstones (High St Kensington). If you're in the area head over and check out this environmental classic.

Kirkup

Saturday's Guardian ran an obituary on our author James Kirkup.

Review

This past January The Tablet ran a review on Empire of the Sikhs.

James Kirkup

We were sorry to learn that one of our most illustrious authors, James Kirkup - poet, translator, travel writer and scourge of the National Viewers and Listeners Association - died on the 10th May 2009. Obituarues from the Times and Telegraph follow.


Times
Telegraph

Two New Reviews

The Sikh Messenger, a quarterly UK magazine, featured a book review of Empire of the Sikhs by Patwant Singh and Jyoti M. Rai. Also reviewed was Villa Fleurie by Deanna Maclaren in the June-August edition of Overseas magazine.

Idle Years Review

This past sunday the Balkan Chronicle published a review of Orhan Kemal's The Idle Years.