The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

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THE BIBLIO FILE is one of the world's leading podcasts about "the book" and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and other certified bibliophiles.


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Publisher Jack David on ECW Press

ECW Press is a North American small press book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a Canadian literary magazine called Essays on Canadian Writing. Its first books belonged primarily to two…

Joseph Boyden on Gabriel Dumont and Louis Riel

Joseph Boyden (born 31 Oct 1966) is, Wikipedia tells us, a Canadian novelist and short story writer. “He grew up in Willowdale, North York, Ontario and attended the Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School.” His father Raymond Wilfrid Boyden, was a medical…

Adrian Harrington on the challenges facing antiquarian booksellers

Adrian Harrington is a noted antiquarian bookseller who specializes in first editions by Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, J.K.Rowling and, particularly, . He is a Past President of the (ABA), 2001–2003, and the immediate past…

Richard Charkin on Book Publishing and Great Publishers

Richard Charkin began his career in 1972 as Science Editor of Harrap & Co. He has since held many senior positions in the publishing world with companies such as Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/Reed Elsevier, and…

John Randle on The Whittington Press

Born in the mind of John Randle at the age of 14 when he first entered his school’s press room, the Whittington Press started life in a disused cottage. Its first book, Richard Kennedy’s A Boy at the Hogarth Press, was printed on weekends during…

Gordon Graham on his publishing career

W. Gordon Graham was born ninety some years ago in Scotland. He attended university in Glasgow and after graduation enlisted in the army; he was awarded the Military Cross and Bar for active service in Burma. He started his postwar career as a…

Roderick Cave on The Golden Cockerel Press

  The Golden Cockerel Press is one of most important, productive English private presses in the history of fine printing. In 2002 Oak Knoll Press and the British Library co-published the first extensive study of the Golden Cockerel. Written by…

Richard Greene on his Award winning book of poetry Boxing the Compass

Richard Greene’s Boxing the Compass recently won the Governor General’s Award for English Poetry.  Here’s how the jury saw it: “Richard Greene’s Boxing the Compass leaves us feeling unmoored, adrift across time and voice. The matchless long…

Dianne Warren on her novel Cool Water

  “Dianne Warren is best known for her short stories and plays. One of her three published plays, Serpent in the Night Sky, was a GG finalist in 1992, and she has written several radio dramas for CBC. She has published three short story…

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