Perdita Cargill

Should you ever be accused of being untidy, show them this photo of the offices of the New York Review of Books.

In 1935, Penguin sent 21-year-old designer Edward Young to London Zoo. His sketches became one of publishing’s most enduring marks

The ancestors of today’s longevity-obsessed technocrats?

A sitcom about Thomas Pynchon winning a $600,000 literary prize and then gradually losing his mind as the prize committee forces him to create a series of short-form Instagram videos promoting the award and showing off his morning routine.

Good cover, great quote, looking forward to this.

Edith Wharton is under appreciated. Criminally so.

Happy Publication Day to the first book in the Will Shakespeare Mysteries: The Stinky Stolen Toenails by Kaz Penney and Sammy Elgie! 🎉📚 A fast-paced, fun, and fantastically illustrated trip to Shakespearean England. Out now! #WillShakespeareMysteries #AndersenPress

@MGLnrd Just lovely, congratulations

The Adventures of Portly the Otter: Untold Tales from The Wind in the Willows is published tomorrow and The Telegraph is reviewing it… I got tearful at the headline. I love Kenneth Grahame’s story with my whole being and do so want to do it justice. 🦦

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Never calling him Oliver Cromwell again (Tess of the d’Urbevilles).

@AmandaPCraig I’m sorry

Sad news that Jenni Murray, hugely respected and loved presenter of @BBCRadioWomansHour has just died.

From an article in Tate Etc. @mbalshaw, the wisdom of Tracey Emin.

Mrs Dalloway.

There's still time to enter a story for this great award. Anyone aged 14-18. A story up to 1000 words. Pass on the info. Get writing.

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

@DrDavidVernon Became a favourite only when I saw it in real life. Extraordinary- I could have disappeared into it. So beautiful.

Vermeer: The Little Street (c.1658). I could gaze at it forever, marvelling at the exquisite details (the bricks and mortar, the wooden shutters, the cobbles), pondering its endless symbols and meanings.

Fans of the musical Six will adore this #YA #nonfiction #book about the 6️⃣ queens outside of Henry’s shadow: bookshop.org/a/102434/97814… #librarytwitter #booktwitter #librarian #librarians #bookrecommendation

Re-read this recently (I was far too young when I first read it) and I loved it so much that when I mislaid my old copy forty pages before the end, I had to run out and buy another.