Today’s the day
Philip made a live guest appearance on BBC Radio 4’s morning flagship The Today Programme on Friday 29th February, talking to John Humphrys about leap year and marriage proposals (!) – and was given the chance to add a nifty plug for The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium.
A Considerable impact
All Things Considered, the weekend show on NPR (National Public Radio in the US) ran an interview by host Andrea Seabrook with Philip about The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium on Saturday 9th February, a perfect forum for reaching a serious book-buying audience. Philip’s US publishers, Gotham/Penguin, were delighted to have landed the appearance.
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Islands ahoy!
By mid-January 2008, Philip calculated that in just over twelve months he had written a quarter of a million words’ worth of text across three books: Genesis – Chapter & Verse, The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium and (just completed) a follow-up to The Book Of Cities called The Book Of Islands, due out this autumn.
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Guardian gets Guppified
A super review for The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium courtesy of Ian Sansom in The Guardian on Saturday 10th November. Under the headline ‘What it says on the tin’, and the byline, ‘Ian Sansom takes a glorious swerve along the eponymic byways of the English language’, this was a review which absolutely understood what this book was about…
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Great footsteps to follow in
A great quote about The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium, just in from Seth Lerer, professor in humanities and of English and comparative literature at Stanford University, California, comparing Philip Dodd’s book to the work of the great lexicographer and etymologist Eric Partridge…
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Calling all Folkestonians!
Philip will be appearing at the Folkestone Literary Festival on Thursday 8th November – part of a programme that promises a gathering of ‘eclectic and exciting world-class authors’…
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Ham & High is ‘mesmerised’
There was a major feature about Philip and The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium in the Ham & High – aka the Hampstead & Highgate Express, the north London weekly that hits a wonderful cross-section of the capital’s great, the good, the glitterati and literati.
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The Reverend Guppy makes his mark
The press reviews are starting to come through for The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium – the Financial Times weekend magazine gave the book a great review on Saturday 20th October, and it was featured as ‘The Wednesday Book’ in The Independent the week before.
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The Reverend Guppy is out and about!
Thursday 27th September marks the UK release of The Reverend Guppy’s Aquarium, Philip’s new book, which is being published by Random House Books. It’s a quirky journey to the remoter corners of the English language, exploring the lives, times and places of twenty people who have been immortalised as objects – heroes of the English language like Adolphe Sax, Joseph P. Frisbie, László Biró, Mercédès Jellinek and Etienne de Silhouette.
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Q says Genesis book is AOK
The October issue of Q magazine has picked Genesis: Chapter & Verse as its lead recommended review under the strapline ‘Prog-rock’s grumpy old men tell their own tale’.
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