All posts in category Books

Incredible things are happening in this world

Two of my favourite things have come together in a delightful cacophony of surprise. Unorchestrated and without warning. Peng!33 is pretty much my favourite Iron & Wine song and I am re-reading (for bookclub) One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez – one of the finest, most delightfully strange books I have ever [...]

The Book Depository

It is a gold mine amongst the plethora of dollar sucking Amazon purchases (*read outrageous postage). I don’t often buy books online – or much online really, considering how much I am online. But this my friends is THE place: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ Pay ye no postage. Pay ye low prices. Appologies for not blogging lately. I [...]

Big Listers

I am reading the most excellent book at the moment: ‘To See Every Bird on Earth” – Dan Koeppel I had a short fling when I was younger with the whole bird watching thing. It lingers in different forms… the ‘Beside Book of Birds’ – which I love for both the book design and the [...]

Awaken the Spirit

The brainchild of Jay Jeffries – is a book called Awaken the Spirit – The Sacred Texts is finally online (At least in sample chapter form). I’ve worked on the book design and a number of very talented artists and photographers have contributed work. I think the project is well worth supporting in any way [...]

Things lovely

I am inspired by the (very lovely herself) Blair, whom I share a bookclub with – she writes lists. So here are some charming ‘shares’ and some things that are pushing good buttons of late. ONLINE/VISUAL Bird and Banner – stationers and their blog makes me happy Sheaf Ephemera – who doesn’t like vintage/old-school things, [...]