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Scott Pack – The Book Swap Interview

I read an interview with Twiggy in which she talked about clothes swap parties. Apparently women meet up, bring along clothes that don’t fit any more or that they no longer like and then spend the evening stripping off and trying everything on. It immediately struck me that you could do the same with books. Only without the stripping. Which is a shame, thinking about it.

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Elsewhere

And how while you’re doing what you’re doing now, and while you’re thinking what you’re thinking now there are whole other lives going on in which you are nothing, and whole other places where you are not, and which you will never see, from the home of the man you pass each morning on the way to work furthermost depths of empty space.

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Firestation Bookswap March 2010 Pt1

In which guests are local authors Mark Keating & Warwick Cairns, and one of our bookswappers brings in probably the best cake in the world.

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Firestation Bookswap March 2010 Pt2

In which 2 of our new bookswappers, get into the spirit of things and do more swapping than anyone else…ever.

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Mark Keating – The Interview

I think in this century we have less and less personal liberty as the years roll on. The romantic heart of piracy is liberty. Freedom. Escape.

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Age, Death, Revenge – and Kenny Rogers

When I was younger, I’d hear all the old people come out with the most extraordinary things – things you aren’t meant even to think these days, much less come out with in polite company. But actually, I’m beginning to see the point of it now. Beginning to see the attraction, as it were.

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Firestation Bookswap Feb 2010 Pt1

In which our presenters introduce the cake, Marie returns, Scott discusses the amazement of receiving pickled onion monster munch. Patrick Woodrow and Josa Young Guest. Highlights include Post- op Transexuals and revelations of disliked authors.

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Firestation Bookswap Feb 2010 Pt2

Our Guests discuss the best country in the world. Marie shows us her skills of remembering peoples names & one of our guests parks on a question for a rather long time.

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Josa Young – The Interview

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I am very glad to be published in the age of the internet. It is no good wondering what would have happened, and what other books I would have written by now, if Victor Gollanz had taken One Apple Tasted in the mid 1990s.

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Patrick Woodrow – The Interview

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A lot of stuff that gets nominated for the Booker is so far up its own arse, you need a torch to read it. Why do people feel the need to describe everything in minute detail? Just get on with the story and leave the artistry to the poets, who’ll achieve a greater effect with far fewer words. I shouldn’t be too disparaging. It’s all subjective, of course. But one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and ‘Middlemarch’ damn near killed me.

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