tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296156912024-03-13T22:09:00.943+00:00Cambridge BoundNow the owner of local publisher The Oleander Press, I’ve lived and loved it here for most of my life. I'll post about anything of interest - either as a publisher, or simply as a resident of this small city with the big reputation.Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comBlogger522125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-27912464907338163172014-12-04T10:38:00.001+00:002014-12-04T10:38:06.232+00:00Private Library for Sale!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thousands of First Editions, many signed, alongside Publishers' Proof Copies, all collected over the decades by Gold Dagger Chair, Richard Reynolds, are being placed on the market. Over the next year we'll be adding the vast majority to these listings so check back often! <a href="http://www.oleanderpress.com/the-old-man-in-the-corner.html">Go here</a> to see what's available!Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-41003750547413880622014-02-11T09:57:00.001+00:002014-02-11T09:57:29.078+00:00Ukrazy Ukrainians<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Check out the craziness of the urban explorers in the former USSR in this <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26018424">BBC piece</a>.Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-10137483570208659942013-11-11T17:31:00.003+00:002013-11-11T17:33:01.173+00:00徐志摩 Xu Zhimo - Check this out!<br />
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So - I wonder if there's some bloke who owns a small publishing house who thought it would be a good idea to publish the ONLY English translations of the poems of the most important modern Chinese poet...? ;p<br />
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<br />Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-91775865274963314572013-11-05T17:10:00.002+00:002013-11-05T17:11:08.479+00:00Renewed LifeI'm very pleased to announce that we're gradually getting most of the brilliant, early Oleander Texts from up to 50 years ago back into print as part of the Oleander Classics Series. The latest is Rajasthan, Agra, Delhi: A Travel Guide - part of Philip Ward's 4-volume Indian series.<br />
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<br />Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-22540151769999149952013-10-26T10:41:00.002+01:002013-10-26T10:41:35.368+01:00FREE - Pre-release Giveaway<br />
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We've got a free giveaway going on right now. fancy an early chance to grab the new Children's story from Oleander? <a href="http://www.oleanderpress.com/jacob-the-jumpy-squirrel.html">Head over here</a> and get yours now - also, you have a chance to win a fabulous kid's T-shirt!! All for nothing :)<br />
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Beautiful illustrations by Fae Charlotte Dickerson accompany a fun story from Jessica Blagbrough. <a href="http://www.oleanderpress.com/jacob-the-jumpy-squirrel.html">Come on over</a> and meet Jacob and friends!<br />
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The ebook will be out on Kindle and iTunes by the end of the month and the book itself will follow shortly after. Get it early <a href="http://www.oleanderpress.com/jacob-the-jumpy-squirrel.html">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-32088403373825118932013-10-21T17:11:00.001+01:002013-10-21T17:11:33.187+01:00Coming Very Soon<br />
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Out next week - a fabulous new children's story. Watch this space. And - in the meantime - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JacobtheJumpySquirrel">visit the facebook page</a> :)Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-11722096941857558242013-10-15T14:08:00.003+01:002013-10-15T14:10:22.545+01:00FREE TODAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy to announce we've released the <a href="http://www.oleanderpress.com/language-learning.html">Key Words </a>series through Amazon to every country they operate. So, if you need to brush up on your <a href="http://viewbook.at/gkw">Classical Greek</a> or fancy grabbing some ale at the <a href="http://viewbook.at/gerkw">beerfest</a> you'll have exactly what you need. <br />
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These useful books provide the most commonly used words in their given language - 2000 arranged in easy sections of 20 words each.<br />
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So whether it's <a href="http://viewbook.at/ikw">Italian</a>, <a href="http://viewbook.at/gerkw">German</a>, <a href="http://viewbook.at/fkw">French</a>, <a href="http://viewbook.at/skw">Spanish</a>, <a href="http://mybook.to/AKW">Arabic</a> or, of course, <a href="http://viewbook.at/ekw">English</a> - there's a <a href="http://www.oleanderpress.com/language-learning.html">Key Words </a>for you!<br />
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Not forgetting of course, <a href="http://viewbook.at/lkw">Latin</a> and <a href="http://viewbook.at/gkw">Classical Greek</a> - for those studying classical civilisation - or just wanting to impress/annoy their friends!<br />
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See them all here: <a href="http://www.oleanderpress.com/language-learning.html">Oleander Key Words</a>.Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-7008974655648168592013-10-07T18:56:00.001+01:002013-10-07T18:56:15.465+01:00Mesmerising<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ok, so today's post is very little to do with books. I'm just besotted with this gif - it inspired me to make this exact pizza for my own meal. Of course, clicking it will still take you to a book - what else would you expect??<br />
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Bizarrely, the .gif came from <a href="http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=1082922&d=11657.41241&nmt=">Pistonheads</a> lol!Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-92032011409152777802013-10-04T16:54:00.004+01:002013-10-04T16:54:39.817+01:00Re-released Arabia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Very pleased to let you know that I'm in the process of re-releasing some of the classic Oleander titles and the first are specialist historic Arabia.<br />
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<br />Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-19908527383400532642013-09-24T16:02:00.004+01:002013-09-24T16:02:50.661+01:00At Last!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Eventually, the new website is up and running. Cleaner, quicker and simpler - <a href="http://oleanderpress.com/">check it out :)</a> Also, it has all the Cambridge Daily Photo pictures from when that was operative - it's quite funky.Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-2273817794819505402013-09-10T09:16:00.002+01:002013-09-10T09:16:27.735+01:00Trinity Shadow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-53839564936638812712013-09-08T20:14:00.001+01:002013-09-08T20:14:11.608+01:00Nations DividedJust a little fun...<br />
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<br />Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-42826285261649661162013-08-28T14:12:00.001+01:002013-08-28T14:34:44.360+01:00And If You Should Leave Me <br />
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And if you should leave me<br />
I would say that the ghost<br />
Of Cassandra<br />
Has passed through<br />
My eyes<br />
I would say that the stars<br />
In their malice<br />
Merely light up the sky<br />
To stretch my torment<br />
And that the waves crash<br />
On the shores<br />
To bring salt-stings on<br />
My face:<br />
For you re-connect me with<br />
All the lights of the sky<br />
And the salt of the waves<br />
And the myths in the air.<br />
And with your passing<br />
The evening would become too dark<br />
To dream in<br />
And the morning<br />
Too bright.<br />
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March 1986</div>
Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-77191420838141153112013-08-27T13:56:00.002+01:002013-08-27T13:56:19.087+01:00An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The word goes round Repins,<br />
the murmur goes round Lorenzinis,<br />
at Tattersalls, men look up from sheets of numbers,<br />
the Stock Exchange scribblers forget the chalk in their hands<br />
and men with bread in their pockets leave the Greek Club:<br />
There's a fellow crying in Martin Place. They can't stop him.<br />
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The traffic in George Street is banked up for half a mile<br />
and drained of motion. The crowds are edgy with talk<br />
and more crowds come hurrying. Many run in the back streets<br />
which minutes ago were busy main streets, pointing:<br />
There's a fellow weeping down there. No one can stop him.<br />
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The man we surround, the man no one approaches<br />
simply weeps, and does not cover it, weeps<br />
not like a child, not like the wind, like a man<br />
and does not declaim it, nor beat his breast, nor even<br />
sob very loudly—yet the dignity of his weeping<br />
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holds us back from his space, the hollow he makes about him<br />
in the midday light, in his pentagram of sorrow,<br />
and uniforms back in the crowd who tried to seize him<br />
stare out at him, and feel, with amazement, their minds<br />
longing for tears as children for a rainbow.<br />
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Some will say, in the years to come, a halo<br />
or force stood around him. There is no such thing.<br />
Some will say they were shocked and would have stopped him<br />
but they will not have been there. The fiercest manhood,<br />
the toughest reserve, the slickest wit amongst us<br />
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trembles with silence, and burns with unexpected<br />
judgements of peace. Some in the concourse scream<br />
who thought themselves happy. Only the smallest children<br />
and such as look out of Paradise come near him<br />
and sit at his feet, with dogs and dusty pigeons.<br />
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Ridiculous, says a man near me, and stops<br />
his mouth with his hands, as if it uttered vomit—<br />
and I see a woman, shining, stretch her hand<br />
and shake as she receives the gift of weeping;<br />
as many as follow her also receive it<br />
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and many weep for sheer acceptance, and more<br />
refuse to weep for fear of all acceptance,<br />
but the weeping man, like the earth, requires nothing,<br />
the man who weeps ignores us, and cries out<br />
of his writhen face and ordinary body<br />
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not words, but grief, not messages, but sorrow,<br />
hard as the earth, sheer, present as the sea—<br />
and when he stops, he simply walks between us<br />
mopping his face with the dignity of one<br />
man who has wept, and now has finished weeping.<br />
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Evading believers, he hurries off down Pitt Street.<br />
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<em>The Weatherboard Cathedral</em>, 1969</div>
Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-19329769152874298282013-07-11T20:31:00.003+01:002013-07-11T20:42:36.064+01:00Spies on the RadioChristopher Catherwood was recently on Cambridge local radio station 105 talking about his new book for Oleander The Cuckoos' Nest - 500 Years of Cambridge Spies<br />
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<br />Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-86765660743652502172013-06-21T10:18:00.001+01:002013-06-21T11:32:43.999+01:00Free Postage Today! (21st June)<br />
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Today is my birthday. I know - you don't care. Understandable. BUT - to make <i>myself</i> feel good I've removed the shipping charges for any shirt order from the 3 Seconds to Live shop today. Including the classic <a href="http://3stl.spreadshirt.co.uk/night-climbers-shirts-C159252">Night Climbers Tees</a>! Cool, no? Use TDAY2013 on checkout<b>.</b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #493829; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', LucidaGrande, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></b>Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-77343239633135676092013-06-16T07:43:00.002+01:002013-06-16T07:43:55.252+01:00And Here's Part I<br />
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So, after running the puzzles on here for a couple of months, we've been pleased with the response and have brought out a book of 100 puzzles, now available on Amazon (click the pic). The first version has nonagrams largely of an easy/moderate vocabulary level but which are paired with straight, or concise, clues rather than the cryptic ones we've been running below. We'll be bringing out a cryptic version in the next couple of months. Enjoy :)Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-80616644378683005262013-06-11T11:02:00.000+01:002013-06-11T11:04:50.364+01:00In Praise...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b>A Horrifying Collection!</b></i></div>
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The ghost stories of MR James
undoubtedly form the pinnacle of traditional British horror. Often
imitated but never bettered, they have, in the ensuing century, proved
themselves to be some of the most influential supernatural fiction in
English. Their power to unsettle is as strong today as when first written. As James himself stated:</div>
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their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable while walking along a
solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small
hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.” </i></div>
Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-55302801364159953672013-06-08T08:34:00.004+01:002013-06-08T08:34:58.903+01:00TISWASNONAGRAM<br />
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<i>Pool generating love with no lag. (6)</i></div>
Oleandermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11041975551732886683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29615691.post-31634660591464296792013-06-04T10:48:00.003+01:002013-06-04T10:48:28.887+01:00TuesdayNONAGRAM<br />
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