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It is my firm belief that books about books are generally the best books; and of those Ian Patterson's Books: A Manifesto is amongst the most enjoyable, enlightening and democratic I've ever had the pleasure to read. A marvel -- ANDY MILLER, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously and co-host of Backlisted

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Ian Patterson is a widely published poet and translator, and a former academic. The translator of Finding Time Again, the final volume of the Penguin Proust, he is also the author of Guernica and Total War and Nemo's Almanac. He won the Forward Prize for Best Poem in 2017, with an elegy for his late wife, Jenny Diski. He worked in Further Education between 1970 and 1984, had a second-hand bookselling business for ten years after that, and from 1995 until 2018 was an academic, teaching English Literature at the University of Cambridge. Many of his students have gone on to shape the world of publishing and writing, both in the UK and the US.

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