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Inky Fingers #5: Penguin

The ever knowledgeable Hayley Campbell reveals the secrets of those famous Orange covers.

Penguin aren’t the kind of unknown indie publisher you need some nerd on the internet to tell you about. They’re so far the opposite of that thing that your correspondent is almost certainly outside of her “can …

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Inky Fingers #4: Gecko Press

The wonderful Hayley Campbell has been helping us rediscover the wondrous nature of books, real proper novels, autobiographies, fictional epics – those exploits that require just that little bit more attention and brain power than the usual drivel that gets read on your average commute, but are ultimately just so

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Inky fingers #3: Melville House

Check out the third installment of Hayley’s column. Catch up on #1 and #2 which helped us to get more into books and uncovered some hidden literary gems

There’s a book I read because I adopted a fear from a Woody Allen movie. This is not a psychologically healthy …

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Inky Fingers #2: bookartbookshop

Remember how we said back in December that we wanted to get more into books this year? Well here’s the second installment of Hayley’s column to get us in the mood…

There’s a shop in Hoxton that stocks almost nothing but tiny little small-press booklets by poets and short …

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Peroni Vivi in Stile

Vivi in Stile (iTunes / Google play), the lifestyle app, is an Italian style guide brought to you by Peroni Nastro Azzurro. Discover the best your city has to offer, from award winning restaurants and hidden coffee bars to exclusive events, galleries and openings. Vivi in Stile helps …

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Interview: The Idler Academy

We like to think of the Idler Academy as a bit of a sanctuary: a place to learn, to satisfy your literary cravings and to take part in a series of inspiring events and activities, the Idler Academy promises to turn education into something that’s actually fun. If you’re one

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Print Charming #2: Hackney’s Influx Press

London. As Dickens would say. A word that fills the air with infinite voices, that makes the heart expand and the stomach turn. A city that is – what all cities are – a novel, alive with characters and myriad narratives. It is a machine and a body that writers …

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Author Interview: Lucy O’Brien

When I spoke to journalist Pat Long about his book The History Of The NME a few months ago, he recommended a female music writer named Lucy O’Brien. Lucy worked for the NME in the ‘80s, has written a number of books on artists like Madonna and Annie Lennox, and

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Enjoy Words & Whisky with John Niven and L.A. Salami

Do you like words? Do you like whiskey? You do?! Well, what a simply glorious coincidence…

Get yourself to Rough Trade East on Thursday August 23rd for the third instalment of Jameson’s Whiskey & Words series. So far, these events have proved really popular, which is no surprise really, …

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Print Charming #1: Wakefield Press

You’ve probably picked up on this by now, but we at Notion are print obsessives. We sit in our office surrounded by piles of magazines, obsessing over inky smells and print jobs. It’s a bit geeky, but then why else would you work at a magazine? We’re not limited to

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