Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers

by Emma Smith

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'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and...

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  • ISBN10 0241427266
  • ISBN13 9780241427262
  • Publish Date 28 April 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Allen Lane
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English