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Puffin Designer Classics

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

This is one of those things that you either know about (and have been waiting in anticipation for a long time) or you don’t (and you find the whole thing very confusing).

So the Puffin Designer Classics Collection is the same idea as the Penguin Designer Classics Collection that were sold last year and now (the Paul Smith one in particular) change hands on Ebay for around £1000. (If you don’t believe me then click here and consider yourself corrected).

The idea is to have very famous artists, designers and architects design books that are limited to only 1000 copies and therefore slowly increase in value.

We’ve had so much interest in these that we are unable to hold stock for any one person on goodwill. If you are interested in buying one of these books then email us at info@pagesofhackney.co.uk with the amount you are willing to pay from £100 upwards. A decision will then be made on 2.9.2010.

We have:

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. Designed by Antony Gormley.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Designed by Frank Gehry

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Designed by Sir Peter Blake.

Tags: Antony Gormley, Charles Dickens, Frank Gehry, James and the Giant Peach, Oliver Twist, Puffin Designer Classics, Roald Dahl, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Peter Blake, Treasure Island
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Events At Pages This September….

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Dan Cruickshank – Wednesday 8th September. 7pm. £3

Kat Banyard, Catherine Redfern and Kirstin Aune – Thursday 23rd Sept. 7pm. £3

Robert Penn – Wednesday 29th Sept. 7pm. £3pm.

Email eleanor@pagesofhackney.co.uk to reserve tickets. We are expecting all three of these events to be very popular so tickets will only be held until the day of the event and then go on general sale on a first-come-first-served basis. You have a whole month to come into the store and pay so I don’t want to hear any complaints!

Tags: Dan Cruickshank, Kat Banyard, London Writing, Robert Penn
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Stuart Evers – 10 Stories About Smoking

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Not out until March but very cool nonetheless.

Ten stories of allure, betrayal, nostalgia, solitude, seduction, damage, desire and loss; of silence broken by the click of a lighter; insomnia defined by a glowing ember; a magician’s trick; a lover’s scent; a final wish. These are stories that go to the heart of things.

‘Evers has found possibility in even the bleakest and smallest of lives, with each delicately linked not only by a cigarette but also by a glimpse into how terrifyingly empty a life can be’ David Vann

‘With powerfully understated writing, Evers has an eye for the humor that lives alongside sadness, and above all for the humanity in the smallest of actions’ Evie Wyld

Tags: Death, Smoking, Stuart Evers
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Something for the Weekend? … William T Vollmann’s Expenses

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

William T Vollmann is an author who seems to have a small following in the UK but a massive appeal in the States. He won the National Book Award for Europe Central in 2005 but on the most part he seems to be an American writer – for Americans. Or, at least that’s what the publishers think. Anyway, here’s a good article if you want to find out more.

Anyway, arriving by way of Flickr on Friday afternoon, his expenses submitted to Penguin reveal Vollmann to be an author more audacious with his employer’s money than British Politicians are with the taxes of the working people. It would appear that Vollmann employed ‘ladies of the night’ to be cover starts for his latest book. Does anyone know if Penguin approved this?