by Paul Davies | Nov 12, 2018 | Uncategorised
When we launched our book on V S Naipaul following his death in August, V.S.Naipaul – the Legacy, it provoked some of the strongest arguments that I have seen about an author. Branded a misogynist, a racist, and a right wing grump on the one hand, there was an...
by Paul Davies | Nov 8, 2018 | Uncategorised
As Stuart Haining writes in his book Planet Amazon – The Day the Earth was Renamed, if current trends continue – a rather big IF – then by 2055 Amazon could be responsible for half the world’s GDP. Of course in 1896, it was predicted that if current...
by Paul Davies | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorised
It’s perhaps a surprise to some people that there are readers who do feel guilty about not finishing a book. At Bite-Sized Books we have an answer – and a way of avoiding that guilt! One of the reasons that I started Bite-Sized Books – our tag line...
by Paul Davies | Oct 26, 2018 | Uncategorised
By traditional literary criticism, we usually mean the type of response to literature typified by, say, F R Leavis, which is highly judgmental, informed by a great deal of reading and thought and usually highly prescriptive. The Great Tradition would perhaps typify...
by Paul Davies | Sep 26, 2018 | Uncategorised
As an encouragement to all the potential authors we’ve talked to over the years who haven’t yet finished (or perhaps even started) their promised book – have a look at Anthony Trollope. Not for him the excuse that he didn’t have time! Aside...
by Paul Davies | Sep 19, 2018 | Uncategorised
I’ve been thinking about living in the UK and what it means and then I thought back to when I lived abroad.I lived in the Netherlands for nearly five years which was a brilliant experience. (I’d previously lived and worked in Wales and the Netherlands definitely...
