Category Archives: Books

Don’t Spill The Milk!

Posted on May 19, 2013 by hamer the framer

Don’t Spill The Milk! is a new book by Stephen Davies and Christopher Corr, just published by Andersen Press. It’s their second collaboration and hopefully it will be just as successful as their first, The Goggle-Eyed Goats, which was launched … Read more…

Holloway Again

Posted on May 1, 2013 by hamer the framer

Holloway is published this month by Faber & Faber. Caught By The River are hosting a launch party at Rough Trade East on May 14th. Its original publication last year inspired this earlier post, Holloway.

British Shells

Posted on April 26, 2013 by hamer the framer

If she sells sea shells on the sea shore these are the sea shells she sells I’m sure…

Beckett At Sixty

Posted on April 10, 2013 by hamer the framer

Samuel Beckett rehearsing Endgame and ‘having an idea’ with the San Quentin Drama Workshop at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith in 1980. I worked there intermittently in those days, even had a small exhibition of my paintings there, and the house … Read more…

Portraits Of Christ

Posted on March 29, 2013 by hamer the framer

This is another book from the collection of Evelyn Hallewell. It was published in 1940 as a paperback unlike most King Penguins which were usually hardbacks. It contains examples of Penguin’s earliest attempts at colour printing.

A Book By Its Cover

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Andrew Walton

There is something about books of a certain period that I find special. This book cover is for a novel from my grandmother’s youth though not owned by her. I bought it in a junk shop some twenty years ago. … Read more…

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Posted on February 27, 2013 by hamer the framer

There was a lot of fuss last week about Edward Gorey’s 88th birthday, even though he died at the age of 75. There was a Google doodle and he featured in The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times and at … Read more…

Port Meadow

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Andrew Walton

Dear Chris, As mentioned here are a couple or so photos and two sketchbook pages of bird images. I could write for a thousand pages about Port Meadow. I’ve been there ever since I was six years old. It floods … Read more…

Hamer Man & The Stalled Ox

Posted on February 16, 2013 by hamer the framer

Dominic wanted to tell Jelly Green a short story by Saki about the man who painted cows. He couldn’t remember what it was called so, rather than walk to the public library, he searched for it on Google. Somehow “man” … Read more…

Goodnight Moon

Posted on February 11, 2013 by hamer the framer

Once upon a time three bears came to The Rowley Gallery to find a picture frame. They were from a story called Goodnight Moon. They just wanted to go to sleep but they couldn’t relax until they were safely tucked … Read more…