Новинки Иэна Сэнсома

Попробуйте представить мир без бумаги. Что нам останется?
Да почти ничего. Бумага с нами везде. Книги, письма, дневники, а еще картонные подставки под пиво, свидетельства о рождении, настольные игры и визитные карточки, фотографии, билеты, чайные пакетики. Мы – люди бумаги. Но эпоха бумаги подходит к концу. Электронные книги и билеты заменяют бумажные, архивы оцифровывают.
Мы вступаем в мир без бумаги, но Иэн Сэнсом рассказывает об этом самом парадоксальном из созданных человеком материале и доказывает, что в том или ином виде он всегда будет с нами.

Попробуйте представить мир без бумаги. Что нам останется? Да почти ничего. Бумага с нами везде. Книги, письма, дневники, а еще картонные подставки под пиво, свидетельства о рождении, настольные игры и визитные карточки, фотографии, билеты, чайные пакетики. Мы – люди бумаги. Но эпоха бумаги подходит к концу. Электронные книги и билеты заменяют бумажные, архивы оцифровывают. Мы вступаем в мир без бумаги, но Иэн Сэнсом рассказывает об этом самом парадоксальном из созданных человеком материале и доказывает, что в том или ином виде он всегда будет с нами.

What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still, there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change - Christmas won't be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. And the language of paper - documents, files and folders - has survived digitisation. In "Paper: An Elegy" Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper and explores its paradox - its vulnerability and durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper it's printed on.

In The Norfolk Mystery, the first in the County Guides series, we meet Swanton Morley. Eccentric, autodidact - the People's Professor.
Morley plans to write a series of guides to the counties of England. He employs a young assistant, Stephen Sefton, veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and together with Morley's daughter, Miriam, they set off through Norfolk, where their sightseeing tour quickly turns into a murder investigation.
As Morley confronts the conventions of class, education and politics in 1930s England, as Sefton flees his memories of the war, and as Miriam seeks romance, join them on their first adventure into the dark heart of England.
When Morley's map leads to mystery, no one is above suspicion!

Israel Armstrong—the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland—finds himself on the brink of thirty. But any celebration, planned or otherwise, must be put on hold when a troubled teenager—the daughter of a local politician—mysteriously vanishes. Israel suspects the girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her American Pastoral from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out of town—while he attempts to recover from his recent breakup with his girlfriend, Gloria, and tries to figure out where in Tumdrum a Jewish vegetarian might celebrate his thirtieth birthday.

This title introduces Israel Armstrong, one of literature`s most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed "Ring Road". Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he`s Jewish; he`s a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he`s just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library`s been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the North Antrim coast driving an old mobile library. There`s nice scenery, but 15,000 fewer books than there should be. Who on earth steals that many books? How? When would they have time to read them all? And is there anywhere in this godforsaken place where he can get a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper?