Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain

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In this erudite and witty book, Robin reveals why scientific wonder isn’t just for the professionals. Filled with interviews featuring astronauts, comedians, teachers, quantum physicists, neuroscientists and more – as well as charting Robin’s own journey with science – The Importance of Being Interested explores why many wrongly think of the discipline as distant and difficult. From the glorious appeal of the stars above to why scientific curiosity can encourage much needed intellectual humility, this optimistic and profound book will leave you filled with a thirst for intellectual adventure. Robin Ince has landed a two-part Radio 4 stand-up special about the brain's relationship with reality and is publishing a book about his obsessive love of books, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Save An Evening with Niall McCabe to your collection. Share An Evening with Niall McCabe with your friends.

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Save An Evening With Sheikh Mishary Rashid Alafasy - Manchester to your collection. Share An Evening With Sheikh Mishary Rashid Alafasy - Manchester with your friends. A conversation with Robin Ince is a bit like weaving your way rapidly around the shelves of a second-hand book shop with a highly enthusiastic proprietor. Warm and gregarious, he hops from one subject to another with genuine delight and fascination. What can I say. Here I am, working on books and smashing my non-work- related reading target... And a few times a year I get to talk to people about books in a similar way. But Robin is making me feel like I could be doing this more; better! I am simultaneously jealous and inspired.

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Save Women's Conference 2023 Pursuing Biblical Womanhood to your collection. Share Women's Conference 2023 Pursuing Biblical Womanhood with your friends. See issue one of the new Mensa magazine in March for an extended interview with Robin in which he reveals the key components of his perfect bookshop. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's just wonderful. Very funny, it reminded me of Notes from a Small Island. In the second, he talks about undergoing a brain scan, muses on what sleep and dreams reveal about our reality and remembers a moment of transcendence at the Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis. This book is a delight. It is a new take on the travel book, like Notes from A Small Island, but with each location's bookshops as the main feature. Lots of very funny anecdotes and observations.

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Save Christmas Robin Children's Painting Workshop to your collection. Share Christmas Robin Children's Painting Workshop with your friends. Robin’s first solo show was a disaster, but a disaster that ended with him punching a melon with Vernon Kay’s face drawn on it before singing Mustang Sally (still no cruise ship bookings). Despite this, actually, because of this, Robin ended up playing to arenas with Professor Brian Cox. This is the story of how he fell in love with comedy thanks to The Goodies and Rik Mayall and how after 30 years he started to find his voice. Winner: Rose D’Or, Sony Gold and The Arthur C Clarke Award. Save Poetry reading and discussion: Lisa Robertson & Mia You to your collection. Share Poetry reading and discussion: Lisa Robertson & Mia You with your friends. Something that we’re terrible at in Britain, and particularly in England, is excitement,” he says. “We have a fear of genuine delight. Everyone’s very good at laughing loudly in a scary way late at night drunk on a train, but that vulnerability of exposing yourself in the cold light of day by saying ‘I love this!’ is something we often fear. I love exploring ideas that stay with people and encourage us all to investigate the world more. I find that very exciting.” Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided he would instead go on a tour of over a hundred bookshops, from Wigtown to Penzance; from Swansea to Margate.Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided instead to go on a tour of over a hundred bookshops in the UK, from Wigtown to Penzance; from Swansea to Margate. An enjoyable trip round the independent book stores of the UK by rail. I read it in a bit of stop /start fashion but enjoyed it overall. There are moments of humour, of slight melancholy which I think the author sufferers from a bit on his solo travels - these are recovered once he engages with the owners and visitors to the bookshops.