Category Archives: Literary genres

Simply Messing About in Books

First some literary news. For those of you who don’t read The Guardian let me be the first to tell you Karl Ove Knausgaard has a new series of books. The Wolves of Eternity follows The Morning Star, and he has just finished the third in the series. All these books run to 800 pages, but instead of being about his family these books concern themselves with black metal and transhumanism, whatever that may mean. Will you be seeking them out? Continue reading Simply Messing About in Books →

Invisible Book

Gert very much enjoyed reading recently a description of Elizabeth Tonnard’s Invisible Book, one of a limited edition of 100, unsigned and costing € 0. The original manuscript was said to be stored in an undisclosed facility, but it is, apparently, no longer there. Here it is on show at the National Library of The Netherlands: Continue reading Invisible Book →

Literary genres competition winner

It was difficult to choose a winner of our competition: it’s clear that there are many ways of being a horrible father.  However, we decided to award the prize to Chicken Lady at Locust Lane, if only for the almost insane enthusiasm with which she threw herself into the project. Congratulations, Chicken Lady, your bus ticket is in the mail.

Stand by for our next competition, for which the prize is a family ticket to the Nietzsche Fun Park in beautiful Basingstoke, concrete jewel of Britain.

The winner of the equally  prestigious Leacock Medal for Humor, of which we wrote in an earlier post,  is Bill Conall for The Promised Land.  You can read about it here.

http://billconall.com/my-books/the-promised-land-a-novel-of-cape-breton/

It’s already kennelled in Gert’s Kobo.