{"id":870,"date":"2013-02-02T14:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T14:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2013-06-04T06:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T06:45:28","slug":"surprise-youve-got-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! You’ve got mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the risk of being terribly self-centred, today’s object is not one I discovered in a museum, street or gallery. Instead, it arrived by post from the United Kingdom. A box of books. My books. Not just books I own, but books I wrote. I wonder if there any moments more precious than these, for a writer. The first sight of your very own baby. Printed, bound, posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\"Outside\"<\/a>
Wrapped<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Unwrapped\"<\/a>
Unwrapped<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Isn’t she beautiful? I can’t take any credit for how beautiful she is. The credit for that goes entirely to the folk at Tartarus Press<\/a>, in particular the luminous talents of Ray Russell and Rosalie Parker, and Timothy Parker Russell (who supplied the elegantly beautiful cover illustration).<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that the glorious orange of the hardcover is done justice in this photograph. In reality it’s as rich and golden as a dream. I didn’t know it would be orange – and I’m so delighted. It seems like a beautiful twinkling of good fortune that this is the colour the publishers would have \u00a0chosen for a book being published while I am in the Netherlands. Land of the Oranges.<\/p>\n

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Prince Willem I of Orange-Nassau (1555) by Hans Ollermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can read an extract from Rupetta on Tartarus Press website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or find details about the publication, including how to buy a copy, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and would you like to receive a gift in the post? If so, you can go into the draw to win a signed copy of the book simply by responding to this post and telling me about your favourite object, idea or person associated with the colour orange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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