HERE IS ANOTHER EXTRACT ABOUT COLLECTING FROM A NOVEL. The scene about a record sale in Northern Ireland, comes from a police procedural by Adrian McKinty. McKinty is a St Kilda, Melbourne based … [Read more...]
Booker prize winning character was a collector of buttons
NEW YORK BASED NOVELIST PETER CAREY (born in Bacchus Marsh, Australia) WROTE ABOUT COLLECTORS in his Booker prize in 1988 for the novel, Oscar and Lucinda (UQP, 1988). The two main … [Read more...]
Book collector & thief
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a fictional thief who uses the proceeds from his crimes to buy a secondhand bookshop. Bernie, is also a crime fiction fan, and refers to Agatha Christie, E.W. Hornung (Bernie's … [Read more...]