good day for bloomsbury

Assuming that all they care about is what I think of them. I finished TC Boyle's The Inner Circle, which I thought was terrific (Kinsey, sex, grown-up, nothing that might get in a Bad Sex Prize short-list in spite of a all the opportunity in the world). And then I got sent a copy of WG's Birthday Party by David Kynaston. Quite apart from the fact that, as I've said before, I think it's terrific, one of the very few British sports books that deserves to stand alongside American ones like Moneyball and Boys of Summer, just look at it:



This doesn't actually give a sense of how pretty it is. It's quite small, and the colours are soft. The paper is a perfectly chosen off-white.