Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize.
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Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize.
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Birth date: 1960-01-01
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Time, once passive, is now aggressive. It dominates our lives in ways that the earliest clockmakers would have surely found unbearable. We believe that time is running away from us. Technology is making everything faster, and because we know that things will become faster in the future, it follows t...
This was an interesting glimpse into the life of a single lady born in 1909, all the way until her death in 1986. How she copes through WW2, work, writing and making ends meet, with no one really to share the highs and lows of life. It is hard not to feel some compassion for her. But I didn't really...
One of my geeky delights is maps. I love to look at them. While I rarely use reference books anymore, I do still pore over my old world atlas. I like things that have mappish motifs. I have a globe. Somewhere, in a box, I have various folding maps from various trips, because that's one souvenir I fi...
Maps can be a source of wonder to those that like to explore the world, or bring a sense of bewilderment to those that are directionally challenged. Garfield brings his sense of wonder to this subjectIn his engaging style, he write about all aspects of maps, from the earliest know maps, a new produc...
I really did enjoy this book, a short history of some fonts, quite readable, a bit idiosyncratic but enjoyable and fun. Simon Garfield has his opinion about some of the fonts, that I don't essentially agree with but it was an interesting read none-the-less. Some of the shennagins about some fonts ...
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