-
Recent Posts
Links
Book links
ibooknet Blogs
Categories
- Authors (6)
- Book reviews (9)
- Book stock (6)
- Books (15)
- Bookselling (15)
- Cartoons (1)
- Cataloguing (1)
- Customers (3)
- Dornford Yates (2)
- East Anglia (5)
- Ephemera (3)
- Genealogy (3)
- Georgette Heyer (1)
- Help please (1)
- Illustrators (2)
- Images (1)
- Insurance (1)
- Ld. Kitchener Mem. Holiday Centre (11)
- Local history (3)
- Lowestoft & District (26)
- Military History (9)
- Navy (12)
- Personal rant (15)
- R.I.P. (8)
- Royal Naval Patrol Service (7)
- Shipping (1)
- Uncategorized (1)
- Wildlife (1)
- World War 1 (4)
- World War 2 (15)
Archives
- June 2021
- April 2021
- February 2021
- May 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- June 2017
- March 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- July 2016
- February 2016
- January 2015
- November 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- December 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- October 2010
- September 2010
- July 2010
- May 2010
- March 2010
- October 2009
Meta
Category Archives: Books
Charity book sale!
Added 16th November 2013: Grand Charity Book Sale, 10.00am-3.00pm Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd November at the Stella Maris Hall, Gordon Road, Lowestoft, in support of the new East Coast Hospice. Original post 28th October 2013: As a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookselling, Lowestoft & District
Tagged Book sale, Christmas, East Coast Hospice, Lowestoft
1 Comment
May we please have our description back?
Did anyone spot Jim Hinck’s article on his ViaLibrian blog in June? I am afraid I only came across it a month or so later but it’s well worth reading, about the plagiarism of book catalogue descriptions. I rather like … Continue reading
The sad shorthand in our evolving language
I need to catalogue some stock that I have been passing over for some time and this morning I was flicking through an early edition of Byron’s ‘The Bride of Abydos’. I found that one of the leaves was marked … Continue reading
Eastward Ho! – Dornford Yates’ lost play
There has always seemed to be some mystery about the existence of a musical play by the novelist Dornford Yates (real name Cecil William Mercer) amongst his enthusiastic readers. It remained so until 1982 when his biographer, A. J. Smithers, … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Books, Dornford Yates
Tagged Authors, Cecil William Mercer, Dornford Yates, Eastward Ho, Oscar Asche
Leave a comment
Collecting Royal Naval Patrol Service books
(…originally published in the ibooknet newsletter for November 2002) A brief history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS) was a ‘navy within a navy’ during WW2. In 1939 much of Britain’s domestic freight distribution … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Books, Navy, Royal Naval Patrol Service, World War 2
Tagged Anti-submarine, Authors, Convoy escort., HMS Europa, Lowestoft, Minesweeping, Navy, RNPS, Sparrows Nest, WW2
Leave a comment