Bookish notes mid-August

It’s been a discombobulating week, but the highlight was visiting the current Classic Crime Fiction exhibition at the University Library in Cambridge. The UL had dug into its vaults to come up with an array of first editions, which made for a lot of fun going round the display cases saying: Read that, and that, want to read that, no will never read that, etc. The real pull for me was Agatha Christie’s typewriter. I’m not really a relic person; I don’t need the bones of my saints. But I did want to see it.