Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield was born in London in 1960. He is the author of an appealingly diverse and unpredictable canon of non-fiction, including the bestsellers Mauve, Just My Type and On The Map. He is a trustee of Mass Observation, and is the editor of several books of diaries from the archive, including Our Hidden Lives and A Notable Woman. His recent books include Timekeepers, In Miniature and All the Knowledge in the World. He lives in London and Cornwall.
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Small world: Why we love tiny things
Simon Garfield was in the Observer at the weekend, writing about making a version of himself small enough to hold in his hand, and the endless fascination of all things miniature: those worlds within worlds, from toy towns to dolls houses and beyond.
Observer
“What is going on in our world that can possibly explain such a fervent desire to shrink it?”
Simon Garfield considers the compulsion towards making miniatures in a Guardian longread about little things.
Guardian
“Garfield is an engaging writer who has stuffed Timekeepers with some fascinating material…thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating. Timely, you could even say”
Robin McKie
The Guardian
“Throughout this wonderful book, Pratt demonstrates acute descriptive powers and a piercing intelligence. It’s in describing her loneliness that she forges the deepest communion with the reader”
Anita Sethi
The Guardian
“Letters have the power to grant us a larger life. They reveal motivation and deepen understanding. They are evidential. They change lives, and they rewire history”
“We have brought this cauldron of rush upon ourselves. Time seems faster because we have made it so”
Simon Garfield talks at Ideacity about the importance of letter writing in our current technology driven era, unpacks famous love letters and why they are important historically.