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Bananas – An Ephemeral Shooting Star of the 1970s
FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: In Burnt Diaries (Canongate, 1999), the third volume of her memoirs, the novelist Emma Tennant casts her mind back to moving house from Chelsea to Notting Hill, in 1974 a very different place from the millionaires’ enclave it has become today, and how this became intimately… Read more >
Visualising the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
By Simon Cooke
FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: Robert Louis Stevenson is best remembered for his Gothic novella, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). First published by Longman as a ‘shilling shocker’ bound in limp covers and designed for the lower end of the Christmas market of 1885, Stevenson projected his text as a thriller in which he reflects on… Read more >
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We have recently become aware of a fraudulent website operating under the domain: www.thebookcollectorjournal.co.uk This website has no affiliation whatsoever with The Book Collector, The Collector Ltd, or our editorial team. It appears to have been operating for several months without our knowledge and was taken offline earlier this week, though it may still appear in search engine result lists. The site falsely used… Read more >
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Summer 2026 – Vol 75.2
- ‘Politics in Command’: Thoughts on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Print Matt Wills
- The Lost Library of John Skingle, 1623–1658 Paul Fletcher
- Jane Austen’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison Azar Hussain
- Newdigate Prize Poems: A Collector’s Conspectus John Maddicott
- Visualising the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Simon Cooke
- How the Enigma Story Was Told, Part 2 Mark Baldwin
- Inscriptions and Decryptions Moray Mc Gowan
- Bananas – An Ephemeral Shooting Star of the 1970s Hartley Moorhouse
- Neil Adams in Conversation with Sheila Markham: The Markham Interviews (New Series) Sheila Markham
- A Favourite Book Anna James
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