Ed Moreno

Ed Moreno is a former Readings Carlton bookseller

Review — 25 Nov 2012

Artful by Ali Smith

Artful is a pretty special book. Smart and funny, I almost wish I’d written it. But, since Ali Smith beat me to it, I will have to content myself with…

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Blog post — 5 Mar 2014

What I loved: Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

My favourite books hook me with their first lines: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, for example, or Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, or Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely

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Review — 29 Jan 2014

The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi is probably best known for his early work: his screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette (made into a film by Stephen Frears and starring Daniel Day-Lewis), won a New York…

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Review — 28 Nov 2013

Banshee: Season 1

Banshee is pretty much the rollicking-est, sexiest ride you’re bound to take this year. It’s over-the-top and violent, but mostly it’s just wicked fun. So buckle in, hold on and…

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Blog post — 2 Oct 2013

Meet the Bookseller with Ed Moreno

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Why do you work in books?

As soon as I was able to read, Dad made a chart which involved a specific reward for each book on…

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Review — 27 Aug 2013

The Young Desire It by Kenneth Mackenzie

The Young Desire It was awarded the ALS Gold Medal in 1937, when the author was only 24. This extraordinary book, like many first novels, is largely autobiographical – the…

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Review — 28 Oct 2012

There Was A Country by Chinua Achebe

[[chinua-achebe-rev]]Chinua Achebe’s latest book is more than a memoir, more than a history, more than the sum of its parts. There Was a Country is a beautifully woven tapestry, an…

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