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Handling the Augustine Gospels some years ago was definitely a high-point of my bookish career. Probably the book which has been on these islands longer than any other (circa 1425 years).

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Good to see the great A to Z still on sale (at my local Waterstones). The best antidote to London smartphone map addiction. A to Z founder Phyllis Pearsall (1906-1996) is a very interesting person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis...

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And absolutely the feeling of being untethered, knowing it's now on us to carry the torch and feeling wholly inadequate to take up that challenge.

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Using Stephen Baxter's reading lists in the process of updating my own... So many recent deaths. Chris, Stephen, Rosamond, Jinty, George Speake, John McNeill, John Lowden, Richard Sharpe, Mark Whittow... Not only sadness & loss. But a sense of being untethered, unmoored, less safe. Lodestones.

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