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This memoir provides insights into the editor’s world, and winning and losing in the publishing game.
Craig Munro poses the central dilemma of this book on the opening page, that author–editor relationships are ‘hidden from public scrutiny by an underworld-style code of silence’. Equally melodramatically, I have always described those relations as subject...

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The author of An Instance of the Fingerpost explores what happens when words create worlds.
What if Alice’s Wonderland was a science fiction creation rather than a fantastic one? By what previously undiscovered scientific laws would that be possible?
In Arcadia, Pears conceives these laws and also asks questions about creation, existence, time and the power of the written word....

Here is a richly informative, scholarly and entertaining discussion of culture and myth.
Our media-doused world is constantly fed stories concerning celebrities and other public figures reflecting various mythic tales and characters; stories of rags to riches, grieving widows, overarching warriors, wise men and tragic beauties are the stuff...