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uwmspeccoll · 8 months

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

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This week we bring you three wood engravings with details by the incomparable British wood engraver Simon Brett (b. 1943), illustrating poems by English writer Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) published as Four Poems for Christmas in 1986 by Brett's own Paulinus Press in Marlborough, Wiltshire, in an edition of 250 copies signed by the poet and engraver. Our copy, another gift from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, is one of 50 copies that includes a suite of signed engraving proofs.

In the book itself, two wood engravings are printed opposite the respective poems they illustrate and these, together with an additional one, are again printed across the center spread (shown here). Primarily a painter, Brett learned wood engraving from the noted English artist Clifford Webb (1894-1972) (view our posts on the engravings of Clifford Webb) in the early 1960s but did not turn to engraving as his primary medium until the early 1970s. Today Simon Brett is considered one of Britain's premier wood engravers.

This edition of Four Poems for Christmas was printed for the Paulinus Press by Jonathan Stephenson of the The Rocket Press on Zerkall mould-made paper using Baskerville type.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #Simon Brett #Neville Braybrooke #Four Poems for Christmas #Paulinus Press #Jonathan Stephenson #The Rocket Press #fine press books #Dennis Bayuzick

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downthetubes · 5 months

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Vworp Vworp! Issue 6 full details revealed - available to order now

The acclaimed Doctor Who comics and artwork fanzine Vworp Vworp! returns with its sixth issue in November 2023, and is available to order now

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#Carole Ann Ford #Colin Brockhurst #David Whitaker #Doctor Who #downthetubes News #Faiz Rehman #Gareth Kavanagh #Jeff Cummins #Lance Parkin #Martin Geraghty #Paul Ebbs #Robert Hack #Scott Gray #Simon Brett #Tim Keable #Tim Quinn #Vworp Vworp!#William Hartnell

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phillipmedhurst · 2 years

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43/66 Headpiece to John by Simon Brett

43/66 Headpiece to John by Simon Brett Wood engraving by Simon Brett (British b. 1943) in The Reader’s Digest Bible (illustrated edition) 1990

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verityreadsbooks · 5 months

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Series Redux: Fetherings

So I’ve read another couple of books in the Fetherings series recently, and it’s another series that’s really easy to read at this time of year – small town murder mysteries at the seaside make for perfect autumnal reading somehow. So this is another Simon Brett series – and has the same sort of humour and murder mix that you get in Charles Paris and Mrs Pargeter but this time with a duo at the…

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#books #series #Simon Brett

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iklees · 10 months

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The liar in the library / Simon Brett

Fethering mysteries #18

Jude en haar buurvrouw Carole zijn goede vrienden, ondanks hun heel verschillende karakters; ze hebben elkaar gevonden in het uitpluizen van vreemde gebeurtenissen in hun dorp Fethering. Dit keer gaat het om een moord: een schrijver blijkt vergiftigd na een lezing in de lokale openbare bibliotheek. Carole moet het onderzoek -- grotendeels -- alleen doen, want Jude is de hoofdverdachte! Zij was de laatste die de schrijver had gezien, en zij was jaren geleden bevriend met de nu ex-vrouw van de schrijver, die zichzelf inmiddels ervan heeft overtuigd dat haar man een relatie heeft gehad met Jude.

But he was coping much more easily with being a success. Like many writers, he had spent a great deal of the unproductive times behind his desk imagining the answers he would supply when interviewed in a variety of arts programmes. So, when there was sufficient interest in Stray Leaves in Autumn for him actually to be interviewed on arts programmes, his replies were well rehearsed. Quite why that particular book had taken off when the others hadn't remainded a mystery. His new-broom editor, who had been about to drop him from her list, asserted that it was a vindication of the publishing house's 'long tradition of nurturing exceptional talents.' Burton himself claimed that, though no reader would ever recognize the authors's 'self' in the novel, it was the book in which he had 'invested' most of himself. It was the view of Jude, who had of course read the book, that if there was any explanation for its sudden success, it was because Stray Leaves in Autum was, at its most basic, an old-fashioned romance. In spite of some stylistic embellishments and the mandatory juggling of timeframes that qualified it as 'literary fiction', the book could easily have been shortlisted for an award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. Her own, private view was that Stray Leaves in Autumn was rather mawkish. While she coud recognize the sikll of the writing and structure, she found it horribly soft in the middle. She just hoped that, in the course of the evening ahead, Burton wouldn't ask directly for her opinion of his novel. Jude had never been very good at lying.

Het is al een hele tijd geleden dat ik boeken uit deze serie heb gelezen; deel 1 tot en met 3 of 4, en er waren er toen nog niet zo heel veel meer verschenen. Ze kunnen prima los van elkaar gelezen, en het zijn aardige boekjes, dus ik zal nog wel eens kijken in de bieb.

#Simon Brett #Fethering mysteries

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literarysiren · 1 year

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Anthologies aren't just for film, and this one had some truly unique perspectives and points of view in it, as each story played into the detective genre in some form or another.

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lakesparkles · 4 months

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A bunch of sketch requests from Instagram! I'm loving drawing these and seeing them together so I'll probably do more

#oh boy the tags...#scott pilgrim #roxie richter #gideon graves #matthew patel #wallace wells #mr peanutbutter #ice king #jake the dog #stephen stills #ramona flowers #betty grof #simon petrikov #brett hand #and tiny julie diane and daria

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adharafirenze · 8 days

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Here are my suede gifs!! There’s one too many of Brett smacking his own arse I think lol <3

#suede #brett anderson #bernard butler #mat osman #simon gilbert #my gifs #suede gifs

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all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual · 4 months

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It's the 30 year anniversary of Simon (with the rest of Suede there to back him up) appearing before Parliament (along with Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen and Pam St Clement) to lobby for the lowering of the age of consent for homosexual sex to match that of heterosexual sex in the UK.

#brett anderson #mat osman #simon gilbert #bernard butler #suede #suede band #i love simon so much 🖤

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vsirsa · 2 months

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brett and bernard sharing a look backstage

#brett tucking his hair behind his ear #i see you #brett anderson #suede #bernard butler #mat osman #simon gilbert #my gifs #i kinda hate this set #but posting anyways #suede band #the london suede #gifset

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suedeness · 5 months

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#suede #neil codling #richard oakes #simon gilbert #brett anderson #help (Italian tv)#1996

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phillipmedhurst · 2 years

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62/66 Headpiece to 1 John by Simon Brett

62/66 Headpiece to 1 John by Simon Brett Wood engraving by Simon Brett (British b. 1943) in The Reader’s Digest Bible (illustrated edition) 1990

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#1 John #baptism of Christ #Bible #Bible illustration #blood and water #dove #First Letter of John #headpiece #Holy Spirit #Pentecost #Readers Digest #Simon Brett #tongues of flame #trinity #vignette #water and spirit #wood engraving #woodcut

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verityreadsbooks · 7 months

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Mystery series: Mrs Pargeter

This week I’m taking a look at Simon Brett’s Mrs Pargeter books as the ninth in the series is out this week. I read the new one a few weeks ago (thank you NetGalley!) and then went back and filled in all the others in the series that I hadn’t read already. Mrs Melita Pargeter is a widow in her sixties, left in comfortable circumstances by her late husband who was engaged in business, although…