Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain

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Someone asked me the other day why I don’t have any hobbies,” says Robin. “I replied that hobbies are a requirement if the work you do isn’t something you truly love. I don’t need a hobby because I absolutely love hanging around with book people, hanging around with scientists, wandering around and creating silly ideas. That is my hobby and that is my life.” Save Robin Hood - 2023 Pantomime to your collection. Share Robin Hood - 2023 Pantomime with your friends. Robin enjoyed the tour so much that it inspired another book, Bibliomaniac (“the fastest book I’ve ever written”), and he almost immediately set off on the road again while planning the launch of an online Bibliomaniac book club and continuing his other ongoing project, BBC Radio Four’s The Infinite Monkey Cage , again with his good friend Brian Cox. There is something familiar, that coming home feeling when someone writes of their love of something that you equally love. Robin Ince loves books, bookshops and buying books. A kindred spirit indeed. He’s also slightly awkward, never quite what he feels people expect and just wonderfully open about it all. If all that wasn’t enough, he has the good sense to appreciate the word ‘mither’, therefore, he has made the upper echelons of ‘my favourite book’ so far, this year. As a Yorkshire lass, a mere mention of a Northern word, I’m on your side. Save Dressing Eve: Re-drawing Biblical Women through Comics to your collection. Share Dressing Eve: Re-drawing Biblical Women through Comics with your friends.

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Save Field, Fork, Fashion: Alice V Robinson & Orsola De Castro at Gower St to your collection. Share Field, Fork, Fashion: Alice V Robinson & Orsola De Castro at Gower St with your friends. If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links. Save An Evening With Sheikh Mishary Rashid Alafasy - Manchester to your collection. Share An Evening With Sheikh Mishary Rashid Alafasy - Manchester with your friends. So what is the bibliomaniac currently reading? “The first one is Invisible Painting ,” says Robin. “It’s about the great British-Mexican surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington, and was written by her son, Gabriel Weisz Carrington. I’m also reading Myths of Gender: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto Sterling, who’s a very interesting biologist and kind of activist. And I’ve just started re-reading Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys, because I think I might choose it for the book club. Plus, I’m reading Anna Minton’s Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21 st Century .” A conversation with Robin Ince is a bit like weaving your way rapidly around the shelves of a second-hand book shop with a highly enthusiastic proprietor. Warm and gregarious, he hops from one subject to another with genuine delight and fascination.Robin Ince buys a LOT of books- especially from the charity shops and in comparison I feel far less concerned than I did about owning too many. Save Lecture 6: Seaways of Hanseatic League & Vikings: Robin & Brigitte Mathews to your collection. Share Lecture 6: Seaways of Hanseatic League & Vikings: Robin & Brigitte Mathews with your friends. Save Igniting Reading and Writing in Primary Schools to your collection. Share Igniting Reading and Writing in Primary Schools with your friends. Save Psychic Nights One To One Reading to your collection. Share Psychic Nights One To One Reading with your friends.

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For sociologist Kahn-Harris, the warning message inside Kinder Surprise eggs – that tiny slip of paper covered in 37 languages and eight different scripts – is nothing short of revelatory. “The Manuscript”, as he’s soon dubbing it, inspires a quest to repurpose the myth of Babel as a metaphor not for conflict and division but unity. A true languages buff, he delights in his own incomprehension, finding individuality and invention in geeky translations of the Kinder egg message into Cornish, Klingon and ancient Sumerian, and musing on topics from linguistic evolution to endangered tongues. It’s gloriously eccentric – enlightening, funny and full of the human yearning to connect with others.It's a travelogue of Britain but via independent bookshops. And lots of asides about books, if you want book recommendations well there are more than you could imagine. Anecdotes, interesting characters and mostly just a sense of warmth and goodwill.

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A lot of this is very familiar to me from my own experience. Books are my drugs too; I've always used reading to calm my mind and escape myself. I too read about hallucinogens with great interest but am far too anxious to take them. It seems to me that no-one would choose to read constantly if they liked the sound of their own thoughts! Yet, unlike Ince, I definitely love reading more than books. He accumulates books constantly, whereas I own fewer books than my friends and family. The majority of the books I read are borrowed from libraries or friends. My preference is to read a book, review it, then pass it on so someone else can enjoy it. The 110 books on my shelves are roughly half unread and half favourites worthy of re-reading. Much as I adore books, in excess they become clutter which I detest. In 2005, Ince began running the Book Club night at The Albany, London, where acts are encouraged to perform turns of new and experimental material. The club gets its name from Ince's attempts to read aloud from, and humorously criticise, various second-hand books which the audience brought in for the occasion. The Book Club proved to be so successful that Ince took it on a full UK tour in 2006. In 2010, Ince published a book entitled Robin Ince's Bad Book Club about his favourite books that he has used for his shows. Each chapter, prefaced with a sketched map that roughly shows a particular leg of his journey, is essentially a collection of anecdotes and observations told with thoughtfulness, humour, and enthusiasm. Ince writes of his travel experience (he relies mostly on public transport), his impression of the stores he visits, their owners and their patrons, and of course, the books he finds and adds to his collection. Ince also muses on his relationship to books and reading, and occasionally wanders off on idiosyncratic tangents.Something that we’re terrible at in Britain, and particularly in England, is excitement,” he says. “We have a fear of genuine delight. Everyone’s very good at laughing loudly in a scary way late at night drunk on a train, but that vulnerability of exposing yourself in the cold light of day by saying ‘I love this!’ is something we often fear. I love exploring ideas that stay with people and encourage us all to investigate the world more. I find that very exciting.” The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince muse on multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout. Ince has known Gervais for more than 30 years and has been his support on tour. And he says they still argue about the nature of offence. Save Women's Conference 2023 Pursuing Biblical Womanhood to your collection. Share Women's Conference 2023 Pursuing Biblical Womanhood with your friends.

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Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided he would instead go on a tour of over a hundred bookshops, from Wigtown to Penzance; from Swansea to Margate. An enjoyable trip round the independent book stores of the UK by rail. I read it in a bit of stop /start fashion but enjoyed it overall. There are moments of humour, of slight melancholy which I think the author sufferers from a bit on his solo travels - these are recovered once he engages with the owners and visitors to the bookshops. Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great literature? Determined to find out, award-winning comedian Robin Ince has spent most of the 21st century rummaging through charity shops, jumble sales, and even the odd skip to compile the defining collection of the world’s worst inadvertently hilarious books. To celebrate to launch of Robin’s new book, Bibliomaniac, he will once again be visiting bookshops all across the UK.From Wigtown to Penzance, the comedian, author and broadcaster Robin Ince has been popping into bookshops across Britain and quite possibly having the time of his life. Yet while his Bibliomaniac bookshop tour has been one of the best things to happen to him, it developed entirely by chance. I think Robin is incredible and apart from someone like Ken Campbell, I have never seen anyone do what he does in his live shows" said Carl Cooper, producer of the show. " Radio 4 listeners probably only know him from Monkey Cage and things like that. So I wanted to capture what his live shows are like for the radio."



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