I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

Louis MacNeice

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The Seven John Murrays

One of the most prestigious of British publishers existed as an independent entity from 1768 to 2002 and published Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Charles Darwin and many others.
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A Tale of Two Cats

A paw print found on a fifteenth century manuscript has set social media abuzz.
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COSTA PRIZE WINNERS

Hilary Mantel, after two Bookers, has won the novel category award for the Costa. The overall winner of the prize will be announced later this month.
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Insular Cosmopolitan

Publisher Christopher MacLehose remembers a time when emigres were prominent in London publishing and work in translation was far from unusual.
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THE COPY EDITOR AS SEX GOD

Michael Fassbender and Colin Firth are to join forces in a new film which will show the true glamour and romance inherent in the job of changing words on a page.
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THE ARCHIVIST OF AFFRONTS

Claudio Magris's account of a stubborn chronicler of the copious inconvenience of living.
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THE WAY WE WERE

Robert McCrum remembers the old world of publishing and bookselling, writers, printers and agents, now, alas (perhaps) fast fading away.
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DEAD WOOD RHAPSODY

When was it we were promised the paperless office? It seems we can't do without the white stuff.
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READING AS BUTCHERY

Dr Johnson loved books. He loved to pull them apart, rip the heart out of them, devour them.
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VENICE, CITY OF PRINT

In the late fifteenth century, the republic on the Adriatic was Europe’s most flourishing centre of publishing.
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MOVEABLE TYPE, REMOVEABLE TEXT

“The endless malleability of digital writing,” writes Nicholas Carr in the Wall Street Journal, “promises to overturn a whole lot of our assumptions about publishing.” “When...
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STORMING THE CITADEL

Italo Calvino, in his playful late novel (1979) If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, enters in the first chapter (or rather it is “you”,...
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