enchantedengland:

  This is a hauntingly beautiful gothic novel centred around a castle in Kent, England; three enticingly eccentric sisters, and a hundred rooms smothered in mystery. I’ll leave you with a few of my favourite examples of Kate Morton’s brilliant wordcraft:

   ”Thus she had submitted, resigning herself to a lifetime of layered glances, smuggled letters, and rare, exquisite assignations.”

   ”…shelves lined with very old books, the sort with marbled endpapers, gold-dipped edges, and black cloth binding. My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.”

   ”One of those few shining memories you gather along the way; perfectly formed and sealed, like a bubble that forgot to pop.”

   ”That’s all writing is, apparently, capturing sights and thoughts on paper. Spinning, like a spider does, but using words to make the pattern.”

   (image from innersanctumsimonandschuster.biz)

adding this to my reading list! thanks, cheri!

fromsouthlondon:

Books in Kew’s giftshop. (:

i can haz british books? yes?

(Source: excelsiorplace)

amarauderinrye:

   The interior of Chetham’s Library in Manchester, England; the oldest library in the country. Looking at all those books makes me hungry. (image Wikimedia)

(Source: reader-utopia)

geisterseher:

From the Jane Johnson Manuscript Nursery Library (c. 1740-1759) at Indiana University.

oooh i want to read this book! looks like it won’t be published in the us for a couple weeks, though, and i don’t like the us cover nearly as much. this is a really neat idea, using the colors of the tube lines. maybe the uk edition will pop up on ebay? (info here & here)

(Source: anglophiliac)

(Source: awritershigh)

alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea:

Frontispiece from Britannia by William Camden, 1610.

(via Beinicke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

teachingliteracy:

Teacups & Old Books (by RachaelSammon<3)

(Source: anglophiliac)

bookmania:

Armchair Books, Edinburgh, Scotland (photo by Fergus Ray Murray)

can i live here?

jonquille:

Penguin Culinary Classics illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith (order here).

i am just going to assume that at least one of these books is by a british author, because these are too beautiful not to reblog.