Sunday 5 August 2012

Buy copies of The Lost Art of Losing

My new book, The Lost Art of Losing, is available to buy now on Amazon and at Book Depository, for well under five British pounds.


You can read some critical responses to the book HERE.

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Launching my book of aphorisms

I hadn't intended to make a fuss of my book of aphorisms, The Lost Art of Losing. It isn't my (long delayed) new novel, after all. But then publication date drew near and parental guilt overcame me. This may be a wee book with a wee price tag, but it's my wee book and if I don't clear a way for it in the big bad world, who will?

So to mark the publication of what Andrew Miller has called "witty, provocative, self-revelatory and touching to read. A companionable little volume that brings fresh life to a venerable form," I will be launching the book in Manchester, Edinburgh and London.

Manchester

Blackwell University Bookshop, Oxford Road

Thursday 26 April 18:00


Edinburgh

Central Edinburgh Meeting House, Victoria Terrace

Thursday 3 May 17:30


These events are free (though the London event, on May 28, is by invitation only). If you're in the area, do drop in.

Monday 27 February 2012

My book of aphorisms: for sale in May

Chesterton said that novels are written for the sake of five or six words. Gregory Norminton has dispensed with the dross and given us nothing but the real thing: a whole library of “five or six words” in their magnificent, illuminating, witty and moving essence.

Alberto Manguel