Books Blog

If you thought conceptual art was all diamond skulls and rumpled bedsheets, this hefty tome on the painter Jenny Saville is an absolute must see. Continue reading this blog post »

Who says a book with a section about the fonts used on the cover of Penguin books can’t be interesting? Despite a fairly unprepossessing title, Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 is a highly informative and beautifully designed tome dedicated to every book-lover’s favourite orange-striped paperback. Continue reading this blog post »

In August 1972, Michael Smith of Aubrey, California rocked on a rocking chair for 307 hrs 30 min. He was crowned the world record holder for the longest duration rocking in a rocking chair. Continue reading this blog post »

This thick coffee-table journal offers retrospective of skate culture, as chronicled in the pages of the seminal skateboard mag. Continue reading this blog post »

Whilst popularised a full ten years ago with Terry Gillam’s rather lack lustre film adaptation starring Johnny Depp and Benico Del Toro, the original novel paints a far more vivid picture of Hunter S. Thompson’s drug-ravaged adventures. Continue reading this blog post »

Alfred Wainwright’s pictoral guides are monumental. The levels of skill, patience, draftsmanship and devotion involved in each one of the set of seven books that have guided walkers round the cumbrian hills for over 50 years, is as earth shattering as the plate movements that created the very fells he wandered… Continue reading this blog post »

Chris Nelson and Demi Taylor deliver again.

The old continent. You know, castles, kings, a medieval social structure that’s yet to be broken, sirs, lords, etc. Archaic, anachronistic but incredibly poignant when you’re in the line-up at Mundaka, looking up to the right and seeing the peasant-taming monument to Christianity that is the local neo-gothic church. Continue reading this blog post »