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Footnotes Blog

Some books spark ideas and conversations that our catalogue can’t contain, and we’d like to share them with you here on the Postscript blog. From ancient civilizations to aspects of the modern world, and from legendary characters to literary greats, read on to discover a miscellany of articles by our team of writers, brief conversations with publishers, introductions to our dedicated booksellers and reading recommendations from colleagues across our departments.

The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones

The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones

Thom Jones’ opening short story The Pugilist at Rest presents the experiences of a Vietnam veteran struggling with depression and epilepsy. The story revolves around the protagonist clearing out his…
Pirate Queens of the Caribbean: Anne Bonny and Mary Read

Pirate Queens of the Caribbean: Anne Bonny and Mary Read

The Golden Age of Piracy was well underway when two of history’s most notorious female pirates were born. Superstition at the time held that having a woman onboard a ship…
ACC

ACC

A conversation with James Smith, CEO and Publisher at ACC Who and what is ACC Art Books? ACC actually has quite an amazing story. It was founded as The Antique…
Eight Banned Books You Should Read

Eight Banned Books You Should Read

In the dystopian world of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 – where society has come to reject knowledge and where books are routinely burnt – the protagonist comments, ‘There…
My Life in Cars

My Life in Cars

When two books from Pen and Sword’s Car Craft series arrived at Postscript, I volunteered to deal with them, although I’m more usually at the academic end of things. The…
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon by Brian Clegg

Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon by Brian Clegg

A thoroughly enjoyable read, the way this book is written is simultaneously engaging and light. It has interludes from Maxwell’s thought experiment the ‘Demon’ throughout which is both entertaining and…

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