Signed First Editions & Rare Books
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The Girl Who Played with Fire: Signed by Lisbeth Salander!
I arrived at the Stieg Larsson party a little late. For a while I’d been noticing the Millennium trilogy in Italian translation, stacked up in huge pyraminds in bookshops all over Rome, impossible to miss, but for some reason I resisted the marketing push. It was my writer friend Adam Williams who finally gave me …
A pianist superstar, a Prokofiev concerto, and a flamboyant signature
There are pianists who play the notes, and pianists who play the notes AND the room. Lang Lang has always been firmly in the second camp, and that is precisely why critics have spent decades unsure what to do with him. Too theatrical, too demonstrative …simply too much! What they are now reluctantly beginning to …
10 natural history books that changed how we see our planet
On 8 May 2026, David Attenborough turns one hundred years old. The BBC is marking the occasion with a week of new programming, a live event at the Royal Albert Hall, and what amounts to a national moment of reflection on how one voice, over seven decades, has brought the natural world into sharp focus …