Due to my newly acquired profession, I am reading an enormous amount of blogs on search and web. A lot of them repeat one another, but now and again you can find something totally new and interesting ...
A young fig-tree its form lifts high Within a beauteous garden;And see, a goat is sitting by,As if he were its warden.The tree is guarded badly;For round the other side there whirrsAnd hums a beetle m...
There is a legend of Pygmalion, a Cypriot sculptor who abhorred all women for their lasciviousness, but fell in love with an ivory female statue that he carved. Eventually he pleaded to Aphrodite to a...
Yet another seminar at the LBF was just as important, interesting and thought-provoking, not least because I could relate to its subject as an author, translator/interpreter, and historian. The semina...
In Visiting London-6 I mentioned and already wrote about a few seminars that I attended at the LBF. One of these was on the subject of marketing a bookshop. Marketing Your Bookshop was presented by Pe...
Three years ago, during my first visit to London, I was researching in the day and writing at night. This April I went there for the annual London Book Fair. I will not write about it more than you co...
During my first ever visit to England I didn’t even go to London, to the great subsequent surprise of my Russian friends. It must indeed be surprising, but in truth it simply manifests this unco...
As for where I’m writing this – I’m sitting in this souvenir shop in Southampton Row, just across the corner from Russell Square and the British Museum. I discovered it back in 2004,...
Since I’ve arrived in England, I almost never failed to visit London in spring. I visited the capital in early April in 2004, then in late March in 2005, I skipped 2006 for personal reasons, but...
It was the year 2000 when I said to one person: ‘Do you realise that all years will now start with “2”? All people who’d gone before this year have got both years starting with...