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Sunday, 23 July 2017

Watching Withnail At Uncle Monty's (Slight Return)

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I've just got back from Sleddale Hall, aka Crow Crag, where a fine time was had by all last night watching a certain film. It absolute...
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Thursday, 20 July 2017

How To Open A Secondhand Bookshop By Mistake FOUR YEARS ON

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Spot the bookseller. Tomorrow, July 21st, is Withnail Books' fourth birthday. How did that happen?! On the one hand, it feels like ...
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Sunday, 16 July 2017

The Two Faces of 007 (or, When Licensors Have a Quiet Word...)

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Apropos of nothing much (other than a framed copy of the first version now being in stock in the Little Shop), here's a tale of the peri...
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Monday, 12 June 2017

Johnny Depp Introduces a Withnail Screening!

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Johnny Depp and Bruce Robinson on the set of The Rum Diary . News just in (or just noticed by me at least) that Johnny Depp will be int...
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Isabel Alexander's Rhondda

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Flicking through a fascinating volume called Future Books: Overture (of which more in a future post, probably), I came across these wonderf...
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Sunday, 14 May 2017

Ever Heard of Beatrix Potter's Adult Fairy Tale, Sister Anne?

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... Nope, me neither. Beatrix Potter's final book, Sister Anne , has been all but forgotten. Narration by talking mice aside, there ar...
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Thursday, 4 May 2017

Withnail Awakens...

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Here's a Star Wars Force Awakens-style trailer for a certain film, which made me spit tea all over my keyboard when I first watched it. ...
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