Three auctions for book lovers

Three upcoming auctions give readers a chance to find out what authors think of their classics.

Illustration from John James Audubon’s The Birds of America
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Summer is finally here. And as we turn our thoughts to holiday reading, a group of acclaimed authors have been rereading their most celebrated novels in support of English PEN, an organisation that champions the right to read and write freely around the world.

Double Booker Prize-winning writers JM Coetzee, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel are among those who have returned to their first editions with a pen to note down their thoughts, as they come to them now, in the margins. The books will be auctioned as part of Christie’s “First Editions, Second Thoughts” sale, which runs online from 28 June to 12 July.

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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