W B Gooderham

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• Dedicated To… Has Moved to Bookdedications.co.uk

  Dedicated To… has just been given a face-lift and upgraded to something far more attractive-looking and user-friendly. If you’ve ever given it a glance I urge... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anthropology and The Classics – Edited by R.R. Marett

  

  To the most excellent of missionaries, That she may learn the ‘Beastlie Diaries of the Heathen’ and, having learned, be charitable, D.D. Paganitatis [? Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Three Score & Ten – The Exhibition

  

  In lieu of a book*, Three Score Ten (AKA My Other Project) is currently doing the rounds as a piece of (cough) conceptual art (ok, I’ve printed it off and... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Three Score & Ten Exhibition

  Dear All Not a new find, but in lieu of any kind of mailing list, a blog post is all I’ve got if I feel the need to make the occasional announcement. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• American Poetry from the Beginning to Whitman by Louis Untermeyer

  

  To Al A gift for Christmas and Birthday, and for a boat farewell. Shortened [?] as it has proved to be, it has been an honour to have shared a derelict sinking... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

  

  Hi Dear Matt – Have you read this? Maggie sent it to me – and now I send it to you. I think the brother he mentions in the book is the fellow who bought Miss... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino

  

  [Inside Front] Sleeping in the eaves with an early rise. Working through Kate’s bookshelf. A few good numbers of a sheepskull [?]. Nothing but dreams tonight... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

  

  To Donald The result of a “cup of tea” at “the army Navy” and with confidence in his future literary achievements from M.P. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

  

  London 1997 Dear Nanu ref p208 I don’t expect that I ever made the centre of the wheel. I have climbed on been thrown off just like everybody else. (but I... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx

  

  Paul, To help you through the next few lectures. And life! With the hope that you will always be fighting, with hand, heart and head, for a world that is... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Honorable Picnic by Thomas Raucat [Part 1/2]

  

  [Name?] Singapore, December 1978 Started SQ083 [?] – back again! – London – Bahrain – Bangkok, en route for Tokyo, 7 March 1979. Cont’d Siam Inter-Cont. Hotel,... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endon [Part 2/2]

  

  [Name?] Tokyo, 24 March 1979 Started in Tokamachi cont[inued] in Imperial Hotel, 25.3.79. To Honolulu tomorrow, homewards at last. Cont’d 26.3.79. Narita... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Your Chinese Roots by Thomas Tsu-wee Tan

  

  11.12.2006 Dear [full name] I give this book to you in memory of your grandmother who passed away at 8.00 am 8 Dec 2006 to be with Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Inner Eye by Nicholas Humphrey

  

  I had read this book before my interviews for Oxford and it gave me confidence to discuss some aspects of human ‘consciousness’. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Percy Jackson & The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

  

  [pipe n lighter smuggle combo] Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert

  

  [kiss] Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How To Go To The Movies by Quentin Crisp

  

  March 1992 Well Alex, remember how you decided not to buy anything for anyone when you were away last year unless an item cried out to be brought home for... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone

  

  To Tom from Ben Christmas 1982 May your dice always be kind to you Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

  

  Jan 2017 I tried to read this book several times and just couldn’t stand it. I hate when that happens as I want to like books, deep down… I hope you’re one of... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt

  

  To my dearest wiflet – to read when I’m away but dreaming of you. Silly bear Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE