A lovely word, mammocks - ‘a scrap, shred, broken or torn piece’ (Oxford English Dictionary) which I owe to a Bookforum review of Ian Sansom’s 2013 book ‘Paper: An Elegy’. ‘Not quite a history, Paper feels more like a commonplace book, one of those predigital scrapbooks of items jotted down for future reference...... a magpie … Continue reading Mammocks