1. “When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part” – ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ by Louise de Bernieres
Here at World of Books, we receive a lot of feedback and messages, but this particular hand written letter caught our eye. It was from a lady called Linda, who ordered a New Orleans guide book from our website. Upon receiving her book she opened it to the first page, which revealed something she didn’t expect.
For the second consecutive year, World of Books has appeared in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100. The list, which is produced annually in association with Virgin, recognises the 100 fastest growing businesses in the UK.
Here at World of Books, we love both the written and spoken word in equal measure. This is why we were delighted to get involved with the Chichester Festival Theatre and sponsor the upcoming production of King Lear.
With the first performance just a week away, we talked to director Angus Jackson about his work at the Theatre and the pressures of working on a Shakespearean classic.
As you may have read yesterday, the acclaimed Canadian Author and Lecturer David Gilmour (not the one in Pink Floyd) ruffled a fair few feathers when he declared that he would not use books written by women as course material. He made a solitary exception, Virginia Woolf, but his insistence that female authors were somehow inferior wasn’t particularly well received.