Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! No cool industry person this week. Instead, fantastic news: thanks to a new device that identifies trace levels of the arsenic once used to make book covers green, you can go back to laying fat St. Bernards on every sour lime flavoured tome you see, safe in the knowledge that the ones liable to give you the rare nosebleeding condition known as the ‘hungry librarian’ have been safely quarantined. Huzzah.
I have moved on to Calvino’s Invisible Cities. It’s beautifully written and a lovely reminder that plot is a tyrant that must first earn its relevance in the thing you want to make before you need consider including it. But what’s on your bookshelf this week? Or, off it, I guess. Something green and tasty, I hope. Book for now!