Many of my favourites from one of the greats. As indispensable for occasional reading as music is to the rest of my life.

Not only refreshing and illuminating, but gorgeous to look at.

TSE did Faber and the rest of us a favour with a choice which includes ‘The Waste Land’ along with some of the most memorable (and often elliptic) work written before the ‘Four Quartets’.
It’s a slender tome, but an admirable selection.

All copies of this should be burned. Such a book has no right to exist. Prof d’Arbeloff, M.S., Q.E.D., misspelled title here or not, gives altogether too much away about… aaarghh!!!

A pretentiously challenging, turgid and sometimes funny presentation of Gurdjieff’s insights into the human condition.

One of the latest additions to the online Safari bookshelf, this makes a challenging change from nanotech cyberpunk!
A very wide-ranging intro to the subject.

A novella, short stories (some of them in other collections) and poems. Magic.

‘This book takes readers deep inside Mac OS X’s core, revealing the inner workings of Panther for those who want to get the most out of their system,’ says the blurb. Just visiting…

“This book takes readers deep inside Mac OS X’s core, revealing the inner workings of Panther for those who want to get the most out of their system.” Just visiting…

On kind loan from Barry ‘Blackhorn’ James, to whom I’ve lent my current all-time favourite film. Jelly Roll gets a great scene in the movie. In the book, he’s the star from page one. Instant echantment.