Episode #18 PT1 … March 2025 Tuesday 11th The holiday mix-up is sorted, and all my holidays have been fixed until the new ones start again. I spoke to a manager about helping an ex-work colleague get a job. Hopefully, I haven’t screwed it up for him. My head is still not fully healed, and…
Episode #60 Tabula Rasa By Mark Lawrence The Book This short story was originally published by Amazon. As part of a book called Missing Pages, which was released on November 24, 2024. The book is 152 pages long and contains all the short stories connected to the Library Trilogy, including some acknowledgements and an introduction. Tabula…
Episode #59 We’ll Prescribe You A Cat by Syou Ishida The Book First published in the UK in 2024 by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers which is an imprint of Penguin Random House. Translated from Japanese to English by E Madison Shimoda with illustrations by Alissa Levy. The original book is titled Neko Wo…
Episode #58 The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Book This edition, of the book, was published by Wordsworth Editions Limited. It became part of the Wordsworth Library Collection in 2007 and was published with the original illustrations from the original work. The first complete stories book was published…
Episode #57 Fox Tales by Tomihiko Morimi The Book The original book from Japan was first published by SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co. in 2006. I don’t know why they want you to shout their name, but… Anyways. The English version went through the same publication with the help of Tuttle-Mori Angency, Inc., Tokyo. The translation was…
Episode #56 Tales From the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book two from the series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold The Book This book was first printed in 2020 by Picador and is an imprint of Pan Macmillan. It was originally published in Japan and titled Kono Uso GA Barenai Lichini by Sunmark Publishing Inc. in…
Episode #55 The Book That Broke the World By Mark Lawrence The Book This is the second book in the Library trilogy. My copy is a first-edition hardback bought from Forbidden Planet and signed by the author. This edition was printed and published by Harper Voyager, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers in 2024. The…
Episode #54 The Word for World is Forest By Ursula K. Le Guin The Book This book is from a series called: Ekumen (Hainish Cycle). This novel was published first in an anthology called Again, Dangerous Vision in 1972 by Doubleday. It wouldn’t be for another four years when they would publish as a single…
Episode #53 The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell By Aldous Huxley The Book Originally this book was two separate books. The Doors of Perception was first published in 1954 by Chatto & Windus. Who also published Heaven and Hell in 1956. It was Penguin who eventually brought the two books together in 1959….
Episode #52 Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Seasonal Mysteries Edited By Martin Edwards The Book This book is a collection of short stories by various authors, traversing about 61 years. The book was first published in October of 2023 by the British Library. This is, I believe, the fourth or fifth book in a…
