The young Isaac Newton, a Victorian vicar set on climbing the Matterhorn, and the actor David Niven ... Cover photo here by John Ruskin, 1849. The CBe August newsletter: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/08/news...
Charles Boyle
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Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
Or, if you're a bookshop, from Central Books.
N u z h a t B u k h a r i@nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Editor of CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social Charles Boyle (pictured below) would like to get more books into bookshops & readers' hands. If you're a bookshop, or a reader, please order directly from him to make him smile! Please share this post. . . www.cbeditions.com/books.html
On the street … Next Monday, 20 July, CB editions will be selling from the Emanuel von Baeyer Gallery, 18 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE. There’ll be bargain boxes outside: one for £5, three for a tenner. All day from around 10 a.m. - visitors welcome, also water and iced coffee.
Reznikoff: the CBe July newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/07/news...
An aside from Paula Fox, The Widow's Children (1976), which sentence by sentence is the best novel I've read this year.
I wrote about the piece on Ágota Kristóf in the new issue of the LRB: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/agot...
Ágota Kristóf
There’s a long piece (6,759 words) by Sarah Resnick in the new issue of the LRB on Ágota Kristóf, following the publication by Penguin las...
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This is the archived-on-the-blog version of the April CBe newsletter: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/news...
Newsletter April 2026: new book, and news of another
Here is Axholme by Mike Bradwell, to be published in June on what will be his posthumous birthday (he died in April last year). Bradwell f...
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Could be a history play about a mad king, could be more sonnets. Either way, a late twist in the story of Eng Lit.
From here: www.cbeditions.com/ErinVincent....
Joseph Schreiber@roughghosts.bsky.social · 4mo agoICYMI I wrote about Erin Vincent's brilliant fragmentary meditation on all that fourteen can be and more. @erinvincent.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social Upswell Pub A fragmented inventory of being: Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent roughghosts.com/2026/04/05/a...
Stendhal (Henri Beyle) died on 23 March 1842. In An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. he's still around: jogging in the park, learning to drive, in trouble with women: www.cbeditions.com/robinson4.html
TELEGRAPHY by Farah Ali (@cbeditions.bsky.social) reviewed by Kit Maude necessaryfiction.com/reviews/tele...
The new NOON (ed. Diane Williams) has landed, with cover pic, portfolio and interview with @nataliazt.bsky.social, plus work by Lara Pawson, both of the CBe tribe.
CB editions February newsletter - it's been a bad month - as archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/02/cbe-...
My thanks to David Caddy @tearsinthefence.bsky.social for permission to post Nadia Vikulina‘s full review of SOVETICA (from issue 82). @cbeditions.bsky.social
Happy publication day to Farah Ali (www.cbeditions.com/FarahAli.html). Glasses will be raised at @burleyfisher.bsky.social this evening, all welcome.
First CB editions newsletter of the year, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/01/cbe-...
Page 1 of the notebook in which my mother recorded every Christmas present she gave, and how much it cost, 1957 to 2003 (she died the next month). The recipients included her hairdresser, the milkman, the postman, the paper boy, the dustbin-men and “Tony’s boy” (toffees, 2s. 6d). She did good.
2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.
Random re-assembly: a wall with a fresco in a 12th-century monastery in Puglia, Italy, that collapsed after an earthquake; a local street corner, re-laid after roadworks.
On negative book reviews: "a whiff of iconoclasm, of smashing a statue in a church": sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/teet...
Teeth: On negative reviews
One of the funniest episodes of last month was a friend telling me that, coming on the Tube, he’d read one of the Poems on the Underground ...
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CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
CBe newsletter December 2025
Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...
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Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...
With a neat new bag for carrying yoga mats and cricket bats CB editions is off tomorrow to the Indie Book Fair at Bath Central Library organised by the wonderful Peirene Press.
Good piece by @john-self.bsky.social on Paul Bailey, who died a year ago, who happened to live down the road and was the best of neighbours, whose last 2 books are published by CB editions: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Where to start with: Paul Bailey
The novelist and poet, who died a year ago, left a huge body of work distinguished by its melancholy wit and warmth. These are some of the highlights
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10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...
