Books written by Simon Garfield
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
'It's a funny name, Gibbons,' she said. She also wondered whether I would be better off collecting coins; they were older, less likely to get damaged, and in your hand they felt like something. Gibbons was a funny name, I agreed, ...
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The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
In a thoughtful memoir, the acclaimed author of The End of Innocence intertwines his lifelong obsession with philately, his pursuit of his collection of rare stamp errors, a passionate love affair and the disintegration of his marriage, and ...
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The Wrestling
Max Crabtree: Alan Dennison didn't smoke or drink. If anything he had a hangup about staying young. Alan was the chap who, when we were driving down overnight from Scotland, he'd stay awake allnight chatting with meat the wheel.
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Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world
From the fetching ribbons soon tying back the hair on every fashionable head in London, to the laboratories in which scientists first scrutinized the human chromosome under the microscope, leading all the way to the development of modern ...
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To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
He also considers the role that letters have played as a literary device from Shakespeare to the epistolary novel, all the rage in the eighteenth century and alive and well today with bestsellers like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel ...
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Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain, 1945-1948
In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in...
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On the Map: A Mind-expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
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Postdata: Curiosa historia de la correspondencia
forma, poco después de la publicación Hughes escribió a Seamus Heaney lo siguiente: «Descubrí la carta directa como transacción ... Heaney opinó que «leer [Cartas de cumpleaños] es una especie de síndrome de descompresión psíquica.
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The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS
Award-winning journalist Simon Garfield presents a story of political intrigue, of panic and hysteria, of wasted opportunities and of a medical battle conducted against seemingly impossible odds.
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
A doll’s house created for a Queen. Diminutive crime scenes crafted to catch a killer. Model villages and miniscule railways. These are just a few of the objects you will discover in the pages of In Miniature.
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To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence
Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest.
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Dog's Best Friend: The Story of an Unbreakable Bond
A celebration of this deep interspecies connection, delivered with Simon Garfield’s inimitable wit, Dog’s Best Friend offers delights and insights for anyone who has ever loved a dog.
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Frommer served as a GI in mid-1950s Europe, where he compiled a budget guide for his fellow soldiers, ... fifty editions (though the prices obviously kept rising: by 1994 Paris would cost you $45 a day, while by 1997 New York was $70).
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
A doll’s house created for a Queen. Diminutive crime scenes crafted to catch a killer. Model villages and miniscule railways. These are just a few of the objects you will discover in the pages of In Miniature.
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We are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Includes portions of the diaries of: Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Tilly Rice, Eileen Potter, and Maggie Joy Blunt.
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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does
From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
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Timekeepers: Twenty-One Stories about Our Obsession with Time
An entertaining and authoritative exploration of how and why time has come to rule our lives from the bestselling author of Just My Type
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The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS
With no cure or vaccine, and with growing evidence of complacency, AIDS is still one of the greatest post-war challenges the UK faces. This book looks at AIDS in the UK.