Day Three of the Book Fair at KwaMuhle Museum
Alice in Wonderland and a Durban book fair featuring latest books by various authors – and my own books as well as those of others who have been published by P’kaboo – what connecting link could there be? The year 1865 provides one … (Do visit the link for a ‘moving’ journey down memory lane with the original Alice illustrations, by the way.)
As you will gather, Alice was launched in 1865, and in the same year Adams Booksellers came into being here. It has survived all the slings and arrows of outrageous (mis)fortune which have sunk so many family businesses, and is still going strong. Peter Adams gave a fascinating talk at the book fair today regarding the history of the company.
Of course, the final part of the link is that, very shortly, all my titles and the others in the stable will be available to buy or order from Adams outlets.
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I loved Alice in Wonderland. There was a series I loved to watch called ‘Once upon a Time’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’ and in that one Alice came back after being in Wonderland and everyone, including her father thought she was crazy when she told them what happened to her and then she tried to prove to them that it was real. Of course she landed up in the loony bin. Silly adults. 😀
Looks like it was quite a fun fair Col. Beautiful display as well. 😀
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There is something really enduring about Alice. Some of the more modern variations have strayed away from the original spirit, but that is not to be wonder(-landed-)ed at. It shows, I guess, how much they grabbed the imagination to start with.
Interesting fair, indeed.
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I had a paperback of Alice as a kid and we bought our kids a hardback version when they were small that featured a dark short-haired Alice, as Lewis Carroll had supposedly based the character on a street child named Alice Liddell. It is a 1984 edition ,with illustrations by Justin Todd, published by Gollanz.
Found this.
http://www.abebooks.com/9780575032637/Alice-Wonderland-LEWIS-CARROLL-0575032634/plp
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The real Alice, Alice Liddell, had dark shoulder-length hair.Your edition does give a pretty accurate picture of her true appearance. . Although Lewis Carroll took a photo of her dressed up as a beggar girl which has misled some people, she was from a well-connected family (father Dean of Oxford). She was eight years old and in a rowing boat when she asked Carroll to write it down for her.
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How long does the book fair last. I love family book shops, and specialist music book stores, the proprietors are always so knowledgable.
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The fair only lasted three days – just as well, as it was a bit exhausting!
I do wish the era of family stores generally were to return. I remain unconvinced that, after all overheads etc, the supermarkets provide goods more cheaply. Just as banks now provide worse service at far greater customer cost and less interest return than forty or so years ago.
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My Nana had a little grocery store with her friend and she had to close when the big supermarket came to town, people still tell her they miss her fresh vegetables and friendly service. Then the supermarkets started opening up small stores where they didn’t have large stores and the small family shops closed down and now they’re closing the little stores, sad for people who don’t have cars.
I have online banking but my Grandads always saying how he refuses to use hole-in-the- wall machines and likes to deal face to face with a friendly human who asks how he is.
The main problem with big bookstores and supermarkets is they don’t sell independent authors books or CDs, if they want to take over selling everything they should have an area for this.
Hope the fair went well for you ☺️
Best wishes
Charlotte
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For those who do have cars, when the dust settles from pricing the small people out the prices will have gone up again, and the petrol and parking costs (plus extra time wastage) have to be factored in. Progress? I think not.
As for outlets for indie publications or home produced goods – that is another story.
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Where’s the re-blog button?
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That is a good question. It seems to have vanished. How did gipsika find one?
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*Shrugs*
I noticed this the other day. Nothing anywhere.
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No doubt some bright spark has introduced another upgrade somewhere, which invariably downgrades somewhere else.
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I waited. It loads terribly slowly, that’s the problem. First go play a round of Cookie Jam and then come back and it’s finally appeared.
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So where is the reblog button thingy? How did you reblog?
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It loads very slowly. You need to make coffee first and then look again. 🙂 It is next to the “like” button, where it always was, but it doesn’t appear right away.
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My one has taken a holiday. No matter how much time given, it remains absent.
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Oh no! Sorry to hear it. We should alert WordPress.
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We Were There! Thank you Colonialist for manning an exhibition of some of our books at the Book Faire at KwaMule Museum.
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It certainly added interest being able to represent more than my own works. I wonder how many editors get asked to autograph books in that capacity (as stand-in for the writer, I presume)? Rather nice!
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I need to show you how to forge my autograph ;-). They are pirate stories after all. – Jokes aside, it’s pretty cool when a good editor gets that kind of recognition! And then of course there are your own books in there too. Hope they also sold well.
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The organisation was such that sales were disappointing. Too much was going on, and interest displayed was displaced by another display far too often!
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ADHD… the nature of your average Earthian…
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You could have added a footnote. ”This author was a bit of a PITA, but he eventually saw reason.”
Not me of course. All those other authors.
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Of course!
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I’m so dim today I can’t even find the reblog button!
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That is criminal – you are needing arrest! Er, I mean, a rest.
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I did 😀
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get a-rested, I mean.
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A nice display! Handsome placard too.
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Best I could do in rather a rush and with equipment problems!
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What a wonderful website you sent me to (the Alice in Wonderland link). Half an hour later I came to and found my tea had gone cold! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better site, even though I found a typo (if instead of of). Alice has featured in two of our carneval floats,played by a 5-year-old lookalike. I made her costume in the well-remembered blue and white.
I hope you sell lots of books at the Fair.
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I was fascinated by the site – not only from enjoying the ‘moving’ parts, although that certainly featured. For one thing, I certainly didn’t know that Alice enjoyed such a varied wardrobe.
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