Favourite Books | Signed By Author

1962 Corgi Paperback Movie Tie-in Edition of ‘Lolita’ by Vladamir Nabokov

Monday, December 29, 2025Wednesday, January 2, 2008

I recently visited a wonderful Stanley Kubrick exhibition in Rome and was reminded of a small piece of my own original Kubrick memorabilia, this 1962 movie tie-in paperback edition of one of my absolute favourite novels – Vladamir Nabokov‘s Lolita. First reissued by Corgi in 1961, this is the fourth 1962 reprint and although hardly …

Joseph Heller | Something Happened

Tuesday, December 23, 2025Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Joseph Heller (1923, Brooklyn, NY – 1999, Long Island, NY) lived most of his adult creative life in the shadow of his brilliant first publication, a work of genius that quite literally spoke to an entire generation, was the Zeitgeist book that encapsulated the anti-war mood of the times and even gave the world a …