#Simon Brett

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

SIMON BRETT

This week we bring you three wood engravings with details by the incomparable British wood engraver Simon Brett (b. 1943), illustrating poems by English writer Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) published as Four Poems for Christmas in 1986 by Brett's own Paulinus Press in Marlborough, Wiltshire, in an edition of 250 copies signed by the poet and engraver. Our copy, another gift from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, is one of 50 copies that includes a suite of signed engraving proofs.

In the book itself, two wood engravings are printed opposite the respective poems they illustrate and these, together with an additional one, are again printed across the center spread (shown here). Primarily a painter, Brett learned wood engraving from the noted English artist Clifford Webb (1894-1972) (view our posts on the engravings of Clifford Webb) in the early 1960s but did not turn to engraving as his primary medium until the early 1970s. Today Simon Brett is considered one of Britain's premier wood engravers.

This edition of Four Poems for Christmas was printed for the Paulinus Press by Jonathan Stephenson of the The Rocket Press on Zerkall mould-made paper using Baskerville type.

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Series Redux: Fetherings

So I’ve read another couple of books in the Fetherings series recently, and it’s another series that’s really easy to read at this time of year – small town murder mysteries at the seaside make for perfect autumnal reading somehow. So this is another Simon Brett series – and has the same sort of humour and murder mix that you get in Charles Paris and Mrs Pargeter but this time with a duo at the…

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bit of an escalation as far as childish hijinx

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The liar in the library / Simon Brett

Fethering mysteries #18

Jude en haar buurvrouw Carole zijn goede vrienden, ondanks hun heel verschillende karakters; ze hebben elkaar gevonden in het uitpluizen van vreemde gebeurtenissen in hun dorp Fethering. Dit keer gaat het om een moord: een schrijver blijkt vergiftigd na een lezing in de lokale openbare bibliotheek. Carole moet het onderzoek -- grotendeels -- alleen doen, want Jude is de hoofdverdachte! Zij was de laatste die de schrijver had gezien, en zij was jaren geleden bevriend met de nu ex-vrouw van de schrijver, die zichzelf inmiddels ervan heeft overtuigd dat haar man een relatie heeft gehad met Jude.

But he was coping much more easily with being a success. Like many writers, he had spent a great deal of the unproductive times behind his desk imagining the answers he would supply when interviewed in a variety of arts programmes. So, when there was sufficient interest in Stray Leaves in Autumn for him actually to be interviewed on arts programmes, his replies were well rehearsed. Quite why that particular book had taken off when the others hadn't remainded a mystery. His new-broom editor, who had been about to drop him from her list, asserted that it was a vindication of the publishing house's 'long tradition of nurturing exceptional talents.' Burton himself claimed that, though no reader would ever recognize the authors's 'self' in the novel, it was the book in which he had 'invested' most of himself. It was the view of Jude, who had of course read the book, that if there was any explanation for its sudden success, it was because Stray Leaves in Autum was, at its most basic, an old-fashioned romance. In spite of some stylistic embellishments and the mandatory juggling of timeframes that qualified it as 'literary fiction', the book could easily have been shortlisted for an award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. Her own, private view was that Stray Leaves in Autumn was rather mawkish. While she coud recognize the sikll of the writing and structure, she found it horribly soft in the middle. She just hoped that, in the course of the evening ahead, Burton wouldn't ask directly for her opinion of his novel. Jude had never been very good at lying.

Het is al een hele tijd geleden dat ik boeken uit deze serie heb gelezen; deel 1 tot en met 3 of 4, en er waren er toen nog niet zo heel veel meer verschenen. Ze kunnen prima los van elkaar gelezen, en het zijn aardige boekjes, dus ik zal nog wel eens kijken in de bieb.

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A bunch of sketch requests from Instagram! I'm loving drawing these and seeing them together so I'll probably do more

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SUEDE

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Suede, 1992

Scanned from 35mm slide

📸: Tom Sheehan

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Suede in Smash Hits, 3 March 1993

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Jeremy Brett Vs. Simon Williams

Propaganda

Jeremy Brett - (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers, BBC Play of the Month) - "Listen, I fell in love with One Man when I was 16 and have never regretted it. Jeremy Brett is Everything. Handsome, charming, sweet, amazing voice, delightfully eccentric. Shakespearean actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 80s, he is widely considered the definitive Holmes and for good reason. Bisexual and bipolar, devoted husband, he was known to serenade friends at restraunts and hold scavenger hunts in his home, where he hid the plunger in a chandelier. Often pigeonholed into period pieces, he owned them. He was a pretty young man who became not just handsome but arresting. He was one of those people who walked into a room and instantly commanded attention, and I for one have never regretted giving him my attention." Full text propaganda included below the cut

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Jeremy Brett:

“The superbly handsome Jeremy Brett, the regularity of his features made dramatic by a broken nose, the mellifluousness of his voice made arresting by a slight vocal impediment, presented a ravaged and romantic Holmes, a man who had suffered deeply and whose recourse to the syringe was the compulsion of a self-destroying temperament. His relationship with Edward Hardwicke’s transparently decent Watson was that of a drowning man clinging to a raft. The authenticity of the performance was unmistakable.” — “The man who created a monster; Conan Doyle hated the fame of his suave hero, but he couldn’t kill him”, Simon Callow, The Times, 18 December 2009.

Listen, I fell in love with One Man when I was 16 and have never regretted it. Jeremy Brett is Everything. Handsome, charming, sweet, amazing voice, delightfully eccentric. Shakespearean actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 80s, he is widely considered the definitive Holmes and for good reason. Bisexual and bipolar, devoted husband, he was known to serenade friends at restraunts and hold scavenger hunts in his home, where he hid the plunger in a chandelier. He also practiced archery in the middle of London. He could sing, he acted alongside Audrey Hepburn twice. He wanted to be a jockey when he was young but then grew a foot too tall. He had rheumatic fever as a child and was told he would never climb stairs. Dear Reader, he jumped over couches on film. In War and Peace he is very clearly the only actor riding a real horse, and is one of few actors who played both Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Often pigeonholed into period pieces, he owned them. He was a pretty young man who became not just handsome but arresting. He was one of those people who walked into a room and instantly commanded attention, and I for one have never regretted giving him my attention.

Simon Williams:

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Touch of Death (1988)

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💑Gotta love character growth and the quality of friendship!💑

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Mystery series: Mrs Pargeter

This week I’m taking a look at Simon Brett’s Mrs Pargeter books as the ninth in the series is out this week. I read the new one a few weeks ago (thank you NetGalley!) and then went back and filled in all the others in the series that I hadn’t read already. Mrs Melita Pargeter is a widow in her sixties, left in comfortable circumstances by her late husband who was engaged in business, although…

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Some sketches :)

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Suede: Dog Man Star

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Released: October 10, 1994