I’ll be talking about The Secret Life of Books and signing copies at Waterstones University Branch in Durham on 14 October at 6pm.  Do come along if you’re in the area!

What the Victorians Made of Romanticism has been shortlisted for the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year 2018.  The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh on November 30.

What the Victorians Made of Romanticism just about made it onto Library Journal’s list of bestselling titles in literary criticism for the period June 2017 to April 2018.  It’s number twenty in the top twenty – but at least it’s in some great company!  Another sign that librarians have great taste.

What the Victorians Made of Romanticism has received the commendation (i.e. runner up) for the DeLong Prize for Book History presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) for ‘the best book on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, or uses of script or print published in the previous year’.  The award was announced at the SHARP conference in Sydney on 12 July 2018.  The winning book was Eric Marshall White’s Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible.

The Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society has published a review of The Broadview Introduction to Book History.  The reviewer, Stephen W. Brown of Trent University, describes the book as ‘a compact and accessible primer that wears its considerable erudition with comfortable humility’.  He writes: ‘the authors have adopted an appropriately conversational tone that conveys the unabashed pleasure they take from their subject, one that gives their prose the feel of a personal tutorial with that rare breed of tutor whose passion makes you want to study whatever they’re teaching.’  The review appears in JEBS 12 (2017), 87-89.