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FONT is based on the agricultural calendar
carved on the font in St Mary’s, Burnham
Deepdale
cover and artwork by John Richter
36pp., (ISBN 978-0-9935535-1-6)
Price £10. p&p £1.80,
‘enters the consciousness of an agricultural
labourer with intense sensory detail and a
wonderful feel for the musicality of language
… giving a vivid sense of the pull of
environment on language.’
Tiffany Atkinson
DOORS OPENING
cover by Polly Ionides
59pp., (ISBN 978-1-906856-63-2)
Price £8. p&p £1.80 in the UK; go
to http://www.overstepsbooks.com
SALAAMS
pub. by HappenStance
32pp., (ISBN 978-1-905939-
34-3)
Price £4. p&p £1.50
Price £4. p&p £1.50
A touch is kiss is touch, like sky and sun
Either would ache without the other one.
‘Verbal inventions as original as this are found
in much of Festing’s work which, in its balance
and clear-sightedness, is like that of Helen
Dunmore. ‘
Peter Day
SHOWMEN: The Voice of
Travelling Fair People pub. by
Shaun Tyas, paperback 185pp.
(ISBN 978-1-907730-18-4)
Discount price £10. p&p £2.50
This copiously illustrated book is the first of
its kind for more than 40 years. It charts the
best times, and the worst times. In their own
words, Showmen reveal their strengths,
their hopes, and their fears.
Favourably reviewed in the EDP.
FISHERMEN: A Community
Living from the Sea Ist ed
David & Charles, Paperback
Shaun Tyas
176pp., (ISBN 1-900289 22 9)
Price £12. p&p £2.50
‘Sally Festing knows how to talk to fishermen
… especially that resilient race that extracts its
living from the sea off the north Norfolk coast.’
The Times
‘Coastal communities are changing fast, it is
good to have them so pithily recorded.’
The Countryman
THE STORY OF LAVENDER
3rd revised paperback ed.
164pp (ISBN 9781852151829)
Discount price £8. p&p £2.50
The cultivation, history, folklore, botany and
uses of one of our best loved plants.
Amazon says ‘This book is a well-written and
interesting work containing a huge amount of
fascinating historical information about the
uses of lavender. Well worth its place on the
shelf of a lavender enthusiast.’
GERTRUDE JEKYLL
pub by Viking & Penguin
368pp (ISBN9-780140-156669)
Price in paperback £9., p&p
£1.80
‘Festing's biography is as
generous as it is meticulous’
Sunday Times
BARBARA HEPWORTH: A Life
of Forms pub Viking &
Penguin
343pp (0-670-84303-2)
Sold out!
'It offers much information which cannot
be found elsewhere and it also contains
some insights that are compelling ... the
brilliance, dignity and pain of this
conflicted life shine through'
Sunday Times
Sally Festing’s work is bold and enquiring,
taut and emotionally open. Her worlds are
various, from a hanging in Mississippi to
an art exhibition. .. she is capable of
filtering experience through diamonds of
clear glass’
Moniza
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