Fascinating insight into the work of a library con­ser­vator, one of the unsung heroes repairing papers and books and pho­to­graphs so that people like me can get their grubby hands on them.

James Joyce was a four-eyed fart-sniffing tosser. Just one of Tim Howard’s make-believe Guardian books blog entries. Check out Tim’s pre­vious effort Sterne for a treasury of postings both erudite and lewd. And there’s nothing finer than the mar­riage of lewdness and eru­dition. Mr Howard’s a cel­ebrant all over that shit.

Mr Larkin, I like your trousers.

Blog. I mean blog.

David Golding is a super brain. Check out his posts on Doctor Who, comics and sci-fi lit­er­ature. And beer. Yum.

Lili Wilkinson is ter­rified of vomit. She also has a lot to say about YA lit and other stuff. Hardly ever men­tions vomit.

Stunning adven­tures in pinhole pho­to­graphy by Tim Williams.

Ross McRae takes beau­tiful pho­to­graphy of people, places, squid.

Great blog on Victorian show­business and more by Melissa Bellanta.

I’m a sucker for Victoriana; the jux­ta­pos­ition of grime and ornament, tech­nology and the prim­itive, manners and mon­sters. Here’s a fant­astic blog offering glimpses into Victorian life, by an Australian but with a focus on Victorian London.

This blog by a his­torian and ‘robot fancier’ pur­ports to “drop history like Galileo dropped the orange”, so it’s clearly down with it, homes, as well as being educational.

Evil midgets, lech­erous men with x-ray eyes, and sad­istic hot-rod driving go-go dancers. Is that a promise, Boris?