Shadow Lines by Nicholas Royle

Shadow Lines by Nicholas Royle

The shadow line is a term Royle uses to describe the faint line on the top edge of the text block that allows him to see whether a book on a shelf contains an inclusion those items inserted into books and long forgotten.

★★★★ If you're a book sort of person, you're going to enjoy this book, which is a book about books, by a book sort of person, and for book sort of peopleNicholas Royle is fast becoming the bibliophile's bibliophile.

-- Ian Sansom * The Telegraph *

Royle invests more passion into his subject than EL James did in whips, and it’s all incredibly infectious. He leavens any perceived pedantry with droll self-deprecation and, personally, I haven’t laughed harder with a book for a long time.

-- Nick Duerden * Observer *

This is a book about books and bookshops that will bring joy to every reader and collector, but it is also about the strangeness and sublimity of individuals, and our tender contacts with each other.

-- Mark Valentine * Wormwoodiana *

Shadow Lines is all about the connections between humans and language and books and covers and art and walking and reading and collecting; the joy of tracking down titles and of lucky finds and random inclusions. It appears to be all about Nicholas Royle but actually it is about all of us who read.

-- Rupert Loydell * International Times *

is the author of six short story collections – Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories, London Gothic, Manchester Uncanny and Paris Fantastique – and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited more than two dozen anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who also published his books-about-books, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector and Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf. In 2009 he founded Nightjar Press, which continues to publish original short stories in the form of limited-edition chapbooks. He lives in Manchester and London.

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ISBN 13	9781784633073
ISBN 10	1784633070
Title	Shadow Lines
Author	Nicholas Royle
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2024-03-15
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.