Category: Robert Gibbings

The Good Books of 2022

New to me The First Woman, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi from 2020 was a stunning read, a brilliant novel about modern Ugandan history and social change. When Kirabo is in her teens, her father decides that she will come to live with him in the city, and Kirabo is wildly excited because her father is … Continue reading The Good Books of 2022 →

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Hearty and manly: Robert Gibbings’ Sweet Thames Run Softly

This summer I have the great pleasure of cycling through Oxfordshire country lanes to get to work in the publishing archives that share a building with the Museum of English Rural Life, over the Berkshire border in Reading. I'm being immersed in English country sights, sounds and smells, and am enjoying it no end. (It … Continue reading Hearty and manly: Robert Gibbings’ Sweet Thames Run Softly →