October 2011 More exciting news!
We
are the exclusive North American distributor for three recently
discovered and never before published D.E. Stevenson novels. Please
click the date link for more information.
Sept. 13, 2011 Roald
Dahl born on this day in 1916
Aug.
24, 2011 A.S. Byatt born on this day in 1936
Aug. 20, 2011 Happy Birthday,
Holly H. !
Holly has been a good friend and customer of Anglophile
Books since 1998. She has written several book recommendations for us.
The date link will take you to the books we have
available that Holly thinks fellow Anglophiles will enjoy.
We'd love to share your book recommendations too. Please send us short blurbs or recommendations of any books you notice while browsing the web site.
Aug. 20, 2011 Happy
Birthday, Tom J., and Susan K. !
Aug.
16, 2011 Georgette
Heyer born on this day in 1902
For those that missed it earlier, here is an excellent article
written by Jerri Chase Comparing
the Lives and Works of Dorothy L. Sayers, D.E. Stevenson and Georgette
Heyer with Angela Thirkell It is available on the web site with her kind permission.
Aug.
9, 2011 P.L.
Travers born on this day in 1899
June 2, 2011 Barbara Pym born on this day in 1913
May 13, 2011 Dame Daphne du Maurier born on this day in 1907
May 5, 2011 One of our favourite authors gets a mention in the 'twitter-verse' "PublishersWkly: Two “new” DE Stevenson novels published 40 years after author's death."
May 5, 2011 Happy Birthday Geraldine H.!
April 2011 Exciting news!
We are the exclusive North American distributor for the two recently discovered and never before published D.E. Stevenson novels.
We've discovered the joys of
Dropbox, a super easy way to store and share files 'in the cloud'. Dropbox gives you 2 GB of free storage in a sort of 'magic pocket'.Here is a
short video tour. If you decide to sign up for your free 2 GB "magic pocket" please use
this link This will give us both an additional 250 MB of free space. And doesn't everyone need more storage space? :o)
April 29, 2011 Congratulations and best wishes to Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton on their marriage. We didn't intend to stay up all night watching the wedding, but we did; it was a lovely event.
Oct. 24,2010 We were saddened to learn of the death of
Eva Ibbotson, author of wonderful books for children and adults.
Sept. 24,2010 Crime novelist and Oxford grad, Val McDermid lists her top ten novels set in Oxford. Anglophile Books currently has numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and
6 in stock.
Sept. 22,2010 Wallace & Gromit to be on Christmas stamps The Royal Mail has invited Aardman Animation to create Christmas Stamps for 2010. The short video interview with Nick Park also shows the stamp images.
Sept 7, 2010 There has been talk that product placement may soon appear in books as it does regularly in television shows and films. This article has examples of product placement in 19th Century British novels! ;o) "All products were real; the text for the advertisements copied verbatim."
June 13,2010 Author Jeanette Winterson opens a small shop in her restored Georgian townhouse in Spitalfields, east London.
June 7,2010 A fun, short, anime video featuring women that like to read.
June 4,2010 "Goodnight Mister Tom" voted favourite Puffin of all time at 2010 Hay festival.
May 18,2010 Thanks to Kathy C. for sending us this fun article (includes a short video) about Quidditch played by muggles.
May 15,2010 Virginia Woolf's iconic "Mrs. Dalloway" was published 85 years ago this week.
May 14, 2010 Penelope Lively recalls writing her novel 'Moon Tiger' 23 years ago.
May 5, 2010 Modesty Blaise creator, and author under the pseudonym
Madeleine Brent,
Peter O'Donnell dies aged 90.
April 13, 2010 
We are Kiva 'loaners' and invite
you to join us in changing the world one loan at a time. Here is the Anglophile
Books portfolio. We would like to add a customer Kiva page
to our web site. If you are willing to share a link to your Kiva portfolio
please contact us.
May 7, 2009 Thanks to Linda S. for sharing this very funny link with us. http://tinyurl.com/ExtremeSheepherding Enjoy! Archives
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