Tag Archives: McClelland & Stewart

Philip Child and God’s Sparrows: the NCL edition….

In an earlier post I discussed Janet Friskney’s book, New Canadian Library: The Ross McClelland Years 1952-1978.  Using her excellent study I wrote about the sales figures of Philip Child’s WWI novel, God’s Sparrows: God’s Sparrows was in the bottom 13% in sales of the … Continue reading

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Bertrand Russell letter to Peregrine Acland….

It has been a good week here at Field Punishment No. 1.  I’ve recently discovered several newspaper articles about and by Peregrine Acland, I sniped an auction on ebay for a hard to find edition (with jacket no less) of Folly, … Continue reading

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