A Time for the Heart: A Novel

this room is my study the throbbing creative heart of the of the house I write most of my novels here and it contains an odd mixture of books probably 1/6 of the books in the Hat in the house a major book storage problem [Music] this study contains a lot of the books that I used to research my various novels I mean I can find anything in about 2 minutes I've got an incredible memory and I think most people who have lots of books you sort of know where they are very rarely caught out this is a pamphlet of poems by Philip Larkin published 1951 20 poems privately printed when he was in when he was a librarian in in Belfast he hadn't published a book of poetry by this time a lot of these poems went into his first book the North ship he only wrote four books of poetry Larkin very cost of slow writing poet and I think there are only a few dozen copies in existence of this so it's possibly the