Alberto Manguel
Library At Night
$54.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he s... Buy or find out more →
With Borges
$16.95 – Paperback book /
“This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges’s magical worlds.”-Mahmoud Darwish
“Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.”-Scotland on Sunday
“His storie...
A History Of Reading
$27.95 – Paperback book /
The City Of Words: The Massey Lectures 2007
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
'And yet stories, even the best and truest, can't save us from our own folly. Stories can't protect us from suffering and error, from natural and artificial catastrophes, from our own suicidal greed. The only thing they ... Buy or find out more →
Homers The Iliad And The Odyssey Books That Shook The World
$24.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
"The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers are often unaware that they were made famous by two epic poems, the Iliad ... Buy or find out more →
Reading Diary
$24.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a p... Buy or find out more →
Reading Pictures
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about a... Buy or find out more →