Membreguyfs

Real Name

Guy Fraser-Sampson

About My Library

Still in the process of entering all my books - I suspect I probably have close to 2,000. I tend to collect everything I can by my favourite authors. Specialties include cricket, history, and neglected English novelists. I am only entering those I actually own at the moment.

About Me

I am a book lover, book collector and published author. I was fortunate to grow up in a house without TV and thus became a voracious reader at an early age. I have probably read about 10,000 books in total. One of my problems now is finding enjoyable new things to read, and I frequently re-read my favourite books - the "Alexandria Quartet" being a good example.

I have written a new Mapp and Lucia book, "Major Benjy", which was featured at last year's Sunday Times Literary Festival in Oxford, where I was invited as a speaker. I have also written the first two volumes of a narrative history of the Plantagenets, the first volume of which was nominated for a Royal Society of Literature prize and is currently awaiting publication.

I have written various books on different aspects of investment for the Wiley Finance series, one of which has been constantly in the Amazon best-seller lists since publication, frequently at number one.

I have a book blog, "Pursewarden", to which you will find a link here. Please take a look and see what you think - all suggestions gratefully received.

Ubicació

London UK

Pàgina d'inici

http://pursewardenblog.blogspot.com/

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Also On

Blogger, LinkedIn

Autors preferits

W. H. Auden, Correlli Barnett, E. F. Benson, Anthony Burgess, Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Durrell, William Golding, Alistair Horne, Frank McGillion, Jim Murdoch, John Julius Norwich, Patrick O'Brian, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Barrie Pitt, Malcolm Pryce, Simon Raven, Derek Robinson, Lionel Trilling, Barbara W. Tuchman, Fred Vargas

Preferits locals

Llibreries: Hampstead Books, Rye Old Books

Member Connections

Amics

albruce, aluvalibri, GABixler, irkthepurist, miss_read, pilgrimheart, PointedPundit, Poppisima, rdurie, sonshi, Stuck-in-a-Book, universehall

Interesting Library

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