Filmmaker and writer Adam Scovell delights in remixing and reworking the photographic techniques and film stock of the past to disturbing new ends. In his latest work, a trailer for a nonexistent 70s TV series of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise, he captures the novel’s atmosphere with brutal relish. Here he talks about Ballard’s impact on the television of that era.
In the depths of February, summer seems a long way away – so for this week’s cover reveal we’re taking you somewhere sunny. Tom Jackson’s Postcard From The Past, based on the cult Twitter account, is a nostalgic and hilarious collection of real-life messages from the backs of vintage British postcards, and its cover will have you longing for piers, seagulls and ice cream…
It’s over. It’s finally over. As the ember-glow of the burning trash fire that was 2016 slowly dims, take your mind off the worst year in recent memory (or try to process it) with these wonderful reads, hand-picked by our brilliant authors.
Happy Ballard Day everyone! It seems every year we celebrate this holiday, the world has become more Ballardian. This year’s (hopefully) going to be hard to beat, with the scientific community announcing the dawn of the Anthropocene, a 24 hour news cycle that makes it nigh on impossible to discern fact from fiction, and a reality TV star becoming President of the USA.
This month’s cover reveal is the new book from the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs, Jon McGregor. His first novel for 4th Estate, Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family’s loss.
‘Write Here’ takes us into our authors’ writing spaces across the globe, where they tell us about how they go about their craft. We mark each location on the map at the bottom of each post. Today we soar over Los Alamos, New Mexico, to explore the landscape of Elizabeth J. Church’s debut novel, The Atomic Weight of Love.
Our second cover reveal of the month is Pretty Iconic, but don’t think we’re blowing our own trumpet. It’s the title of Sali Hughes’s new book, the follow up to her sensational beauty guide Pretty Honest…
Packed full of beauty wisdom, Pretty Iconic takes us from the evocative smell of Johnson’s baby lotion through to Simple Face wipes, NARS Orgasm and beyond, looking at the formative role beauty plays in our lives.
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Forget Bridget Jones, this month’s cover reveal is the book you have been waiting for – The Heartfix is totally compulsive, painfully true and darkly comic, an unputdownable account of one woman’s search for love online.
