Books in Wernicke

Books in Wernicke is a blog site dedicated to the books that have accumulated in the High Barn Library over many years of collecting. It is also the blog of High Barn Books, the retail company formed in 2001, which now has some 6,000 books for sale. The title of the blog pays homage to the Wernicke bookcase, surely, with its 'up and over' glass doors, one of the most civilised pieces of library furniture.

Friday, 18 April 2025

Some Bookshops of Norwich

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There are some cities that have enough good bookshops to become a destination for book lovers and book collectors. Think of Bath, York, Edin...
Friday, 13 May 2022

The Rather Haunted World of Shirley Jackson

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When Shirley Jackson was nine her family moved from San Francisco city out to the expanding fashionable suburb of Burlingame, south of the c...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022

The Bibliomysteries of John Dunning

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It was in the Book Farm at Henneker, New Hampshire in the mid 1990s that I was recommended to read John Dunning's 'Booked to Die...
Monday, 2 May 2022

The Butterfly Books - forging your own books.

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  Some years ago, in a collection of books we had acquired, we found a tiny, paper covered book with the front and back covers beautifully d...
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Sunday, 4 May 2014

Books that Stimulate the Imagination

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In the late 70's I developed a fondness for paperback books published by Pan under the Picador imprint. In a slightly larger format than...
Saturday, 3 May 2014

The Ghost Stories of E F Benson

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The dinner table has been cleared, the servants dismissed for the night and the remnants of the party assembled for a few days shooting (or ...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

The Best Ghost Story Collections

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Winter is the season of ghosts, as doors rattle and creak in the wind and bare limbs of trees tap at the window pane. It is a time to h...
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Retired physicist turned bookseller and lifetime collector of books. Passionate supporter of bookshops and bookfairs, where I have spent many happy hours and found most of my treasures.
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