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Simon Garfield

December 2018

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

    Further reading
    ‘The best fun in millimetres’: great books about miniature worlds

    From the magic of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to dollhouse-sized dioramas of true crime scenes … Simon Garfield celebrates the small-scale

October 2016

  • watches in a shop window

    Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield – review

    Do deadlines dominate our lives? This engaging study makes its case with some fascinating material, from ‘smiling’ clocks to the three-minute pop single

June 2016

  • Jean Lucey Pratt

    A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt – review

    This vivid chronicle of an unmarried writer’s life records her grief, fears and desires, and the trials of war

November 2015

  • jean lucey pratt

    Book of the day
    A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt – review

    The candid diaries of an unmarried woman reveal personal tribulation and immense social change
  • Edna O'Brien for Saturday Review.

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Remarkable women: Edna O'Brien, Kate Gross and Jean Lucey Pratt – books podcast

    We explore guilt, memory and courage with a novel from Edna O’Brien, a posthumous memoir from Kate Gross and the journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
  • Jean Lucy Pratt

    A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt edited by Simon Garfield review – childhood, the blitz, and the search for love

    The yearnings of one young woman show how extraordinary an ‘ordinary’ life can be

August 2014

  • Portrait of Oscar Wilde

    To the Letter review – Simon Garfield's paean to the epistle

    Simon Garfield makes a convincing case for why letter-writing still matters in the digital age, writes Anita Sethi

November 2013

  • Published in 1482 by the German cartographer Nicolaus Germanus as part of his Cosmographia. This was the first atlas to be printed in Germany, as well as the first made from woodcut blocks and to contain hand-colored maps.

    Books blog
    What do maps mean to you?

    Whether it's a beautifully illustrated treasure map, something scrawled on the back of an envelope, a conceptual brainstorm or even a palm reading, share your maps with us and explain their significance

October 2013

  • First class stamps

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Letters of Hemingway and Isherwood, with Simon Garfield – books podcast

    Letters from Ernest Hemingway and Christopher Isherwood give us an intimate portrait of their lives, while Simon Garfield traces the art of letter writing through the ages

September 2013

  • on the map simon garfield

    On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does by Simon Garfield – review

    Simon Garfield's book on map-making cements his role as the thinking grown-up's favourite teacher, writes Andrew Martin

November 2012

  • Simon Garfield with globe

    On the Map by Simon Garfield – review

    This collection of cartographic curiosities is delivered with enthusiasm, writes Henry Krempels

October 2012

  • Detail from a Grayson Perry tapestry

    Top 10s
    Simon Garfield's top 10 books with maps

  • Vinland map

    On the Map by Simon Garfield – review

September 2012

  • Simon Garfield holding a globe

    A life in ...
    Simon Garfield: a life in books

    'The digital revolution, neatly encapsulated in the Facebook map, has transformed mapping more than all the other innovations of cartography'

October 2011

  • Old wooden letters

    Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield – review

    Simon Garfield's lyrical study of typefaces will make font-spotters of us all, writes Jessica Holland

August 2011

  • Simon Garfield signing books in Edinburgh

    Books blog
    Your Edinburgh book festival reviews: Simon Garfield

    Audience reactions to typography expert's history lesson

December 2010

  • Old wooden letters

    Just My Type by Simon Garfield, Manuale Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni – review

  • Old wooden letters

    Just My Type by Simon Garfield and Manuale Tipographico by Giambattista Bodoni – review

October 2010

  • typeface fonts daily mail

    Favourite fonts: what's your type?

    William Skidelsky

    William Skidelsky: My font of choice has always been Times New Roman, a designer's nightmare, as Simon Garfield has helped me to realise. So which typefaces do it for you?

April 2008

  • Memory albums

    Simon Garfield's The Error World is a memoir of obsession and philately, says Killian Fox

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