Widdershins Walk – round the edge of Reading COMING IN SPRING 2025
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A new book by artists and writers Peter Driver and Geoff Sawers that encompasses an anti-clockwise walk around the circumference of Reading, divided into four quarters and four seasons. A year long slow art project by two well-known local artists.
Widdershins Walk: Round the Edge of Reading is a series of reflections on the history, natural history and archaeology of the town's limits and edge spaces, meditations on what the town is and will be. It is richly illustrated with drawings, paintings, woodcuts and photographs all made along the journey.. £20. 203mm x 254 mm. Softback
Publication planned spring 2025. Delivery to UK only. All pre-orders received before 31 December 2024 will have their names included in a subscribers' list printed at the end of the book. You can of course request to be anonymous if you would rather. |
TRACe: the Museum of Memory – Roma Tearne
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Paperback first edition of 200
Black & white, 36 images, 198mm x 129mm, 112 pages Limited edition of 50, including red hand-stitched binding and cloth ribbon wraps, a collograph print by Roma Tearne, colour photograph, and two specially commissioned hand-typeset letterpress printed pages.
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“On entering you will notice that the collection within these rooms appears to belong to one person alone. However, I hope that on closer inspection it will become clear that the exhibits belong to everyone who has ever lived.”
Drawing on Tearne’s background, and experience of loss – she left Sri Lanka for the UK with her family, at the start of the civil unrest during the 1960s – the book imagines an archive and museum collection cultivated from a trunk of photographs and artefacts from an unknown donor. With no known provenance and in poor condition, the collection stands in as a substitute for the lost possessions of every dislocated individual – whether a displaced person or refugee, or simply someone who has been forced by circumstance to leave the familiar behind, losing special objects in the process. People often cannot help looking for artefacts which belong to their past and are unable to rest if they can’t find them. TRACe provides that rest – it is the story of a collection, and the house which becomes a museum to hold those possessions. Roma Tearne is an award-winning artist (winner of the 2020 Hugh Casson Drawing Prize at the Royal Academy), and seven-times novelist who has been short and long-listed for many prizes, including the Costa, and the Asian Man Booker. |
Peculiarity Press regrets that due to Brexit related VAT changes which came into effect on 1st July 2021, we are no longer able to send books to EU countries. We have no wish to disappoint people but sadly the cost and administration is too onerous. An edition of TRACe is available via EU Amazon sites.
