For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature, an intimate engagement with writers from Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Marcel Proust to Zora Neale Hurston, a wise and funny celebration of the power of words, and a meditation on mental unr...
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