Books by Christopher de Hamel

Christopher de Hamel’s Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is one of the very greatest books of the last twenty years.  So I buy whatever else he puts out, and I did not regret my purchase of this one.  Imagine an intersecting tale of a boyhood in New Zealand (!), the medieval manuscript collecting habits of Colonial Secretary Sir George Grey, and a Bildungsroman of both aesthetic taste and personal maturation.  The back cover notes that “Christopher de Hamel has probably handled more medieval ...

Here is a Guardian review , John Banville in the FT raves about it , and here is The Paris Review .  I believe I ordered it on Amazon.uk , all five-star reviews by the way.  Here is the U.S. Amazon listing , with access to used copies, I am not sure when the American edition comes out.