Six Classics for your 2021 Reading List
For many of us the start of a new year is the time we promise to read more, and to read better. Here’s a list of six classics to add to your bookshelves this year, and final…
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What We Read in Lockdown 2.0
Here at Gallic Books, as we approach the end of ‘Lockdown 2.0’, we’re looking back at the books that saw us through the month of November. From a foodie’s tour of France to Atwood’…
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Edward Carey: A Drawing a Day in Lockdown
For 239 days now I have been doing a drawing a day and posting it on twitter and Instagram. I decided to do this, without much thought, just after I’d fled back home to Austin, Tex…
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Bookshelves By … Antoine Laurain and Edward Carey
To celebrate Bookshop Day, run by the Booksellers Association, we teamed up with two Gallic Books authors, with new titles out this Autumn, to curate bookshelves featuring their fa…
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Philip Terry on the Endless Fascination of Georges Perec’s I Remember
In France today, Perec’s memoir of 1979 Je me souviens is thought of as one of his most diverting and original works. It has been adapted for stage and television, and has been the…
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