I think I have mentioned it before but Tom Stimpson‘s sister Lesley is organising an exhibition of some of his original work in Westbury starting on the 14th June when it would have been Tom’s 70th birthday. Here are the details.
Why not visit Maurice at Zardoz Records and Books at Unit 4, Mill Lane, Hawkeridge, Westbury, BA134LD while you are there. Thousands of books for just a pound.
As an aside, and just to show I’m not a one trick pony, I am also a ranger for a disused railway line that is being repurposed as a walking/cycling greenway. The first of four sections has been surfaced and an official opening ceremony took place. I was surprised to be asked to cut the ribbon it but this was probably because I have been doing management work on it since the last century. What they didn’t tell me, because of health and safety gone mad, they were kiddies scissors that wouldn’t cut a jelly hence the laughs all round!
I recently picked up a couple of Canadian PAN editions, one with the same cover as the UK but printed in Canada, the other with a different cover also printed in Canada. What was interesting, well I though so, was that they both had green dyed page edges. The books are ‘Hungry as the Sea’ by Wilbur Smith and ‘La Luna’ by George Malko.
