A Box Full of Murders

Janice Hallett. Puffin Books, (464p) ISBN: 9780241636183. Middle Grade, read 17/04/25, Paperback ★★★★☆

A Box Full of Murders

A Box Full of Murders

I was very excited and intrigued when I saw a middle grade murder mystery from Janice Hallett as her murder mysteries for adults are extremely popular and will have instant name recognition for adults buying for their kids.

Ava and Luke’s parent have separated and Ava is with Mum and Luke is with Dad, when Luke finds a box full of secret papers in the loft.

This separation gives the vehicle to show the documents that were found as Luke texts them to Ava, we also follow their text conversations as they discuss the mystery as it unfolds.

Well-paced and full of clues and red herrings, but also has a lot of information on how to look at evidence so that younger people can interrogate the text better and learn the conventions of murder mysteries as the book goes on.

Set in 1983 on a Scouts and Guides last camp as the site has been bought and going to be developed into a waste processing plant by what seems like a very dislikable company and brimming with comic characters (Officers Grudge and Grimm for a start), miscreants, obvious suspects, and intrepid investigators.

A great little mystery that had one or two little things that niggled me but wouldn’t be noticeable by the target audience, well-paced, funny, tense, and a great start to reading murder mysteries for the younger audience.

I received this from Puffin Books in exchange for an honest review.

Paul Dalton – Author Q&A

Paul Dalton

Paul Dalton

After completing an art degree, Paul Dalton got a job in a bookshop and then a library. His storytimes were legendary. Through his writing, he explores climate change and the questions that go with it. He set his novel in the present day, as climate change is a story for now, not the future. He puts jokes in his writing as sometimes all you can do is laugh. ‘Don’t Go To Work, The World Is Ending,’ is out May 25th with Indie Novella.

Paul can be found at:
Website: pauldalton.co.uk
Instagram: @pauldalton_
BlueSky: @p-dalton.bsky.social

Tell me what inspired you to write your debut novel?

Like a lot of people, I spend a lot of my time thinking about climate change and have come to the conclusion that only normal people can fix it. The trouble is, that normal people don’t feel like they have the power to do so. So I thought, why not write a story about some normal people actually getting to fix a problem?

What came first, the characters or the world?

Characters but it’s all linked. A good world should be a character in its own right.

How long did it take to write?

About 2 years, but that includes about 9 months of rewrites with the publisher.

Do you have a writing playlist? If so do you want to share it?

It’s the album ‘Pink Flag’ by Wire. It’s post-punk perfection. It’s only 30 minutes long so I must have listened to it thousands of times.

What kind of reactions have you had to your book?

Surprise mainly, I didn’t tell too many people about it until I had a publisher interested.

What can you tell us about your next book?

It’s early days but: Dracula. Fascism. Christopher Lee.

Which genres do you read yourself?

Anything with a good hook for fiction and as widely as possible with non-fiction.

Don’t Go To Work, The World Is Ending

Don’t Go To Work, The World Is Ending

What will always distract you?

I don’t get distracted, I get temporarily inspired.

What were your favourite childhood books?

The Pongwiffy books. A smelly witch and a Dutch hamster, what’s not to love? Honourable mention for Bill’s New Frock and Harry the Poisonous Centipede.

Do you have any rituals when writing?

Does listening to the same 30 minutes of music on repeat count?

How many books are in your own physical TBR pile?

Only about 5 at the moment but that’s because the other 30 are in a drawer where I can’t see them so I don’t get guilty.

What is your current or latest read?

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. Which is surprisingly compelling, like a non-fiction 1984

and finally, what inspired you to write the genre you do?

I think fantasy suits big ideas. Humans have always used fantasy to try and understand the big stuff. Gods and monsters and all that, is just an attempt to process the things that don’t make sense. I like to write about the things that don’t make sense, which, unfortunately, includes climate change.

The Fib

Pedro Iniguez, Nathan Kwan. Gloo Books, (32p) ISBN: 9781962351300. Picture Book, read 14/04/25, eBook ★★★★☆

The Fib

The Fib

Picture books with clear stories, with a simple moral are always great for kids, especially when they are fun as well.

More so when the story feels as though it’s getting out of hand.

It all starts with Pepe being too embarrassed to share the comic book he had been working on all summer with the class, and it is here where he introduces the fib to the class.

and this is where things start to get out of hand, to defend the initial fib Pepe has to keep adding to the fib.

Initially the fib is a cute little green fuzz ball, but it gets bigger and bigger all the time and gets more destructive as it goes on.

This is a brilliant metaphor for lying and works really well, and the monster is wonderful in it’s growth and, eventually, in its reversal. The reversal is also excellently explained.

Really enjoyed this for its vibrant illustrations and straightforward clear explanation of what can go wrong when you lie.

I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

TV Shows

Jon Pertwee

Jon Pertwee

To go along with the various lists of award winning TV, Film, and Music I needed a dump space for everything else that doesn’t win awards.

There is the Lack of Resolution (see pinned list) post where I look at all those favourite series that never quite finished and we were left hanging in the middle of massive story arcs (looking at you The Order, seven loose arcs!).

This one will just be a list of all the other series I’ve heard about and fancied watching, all will eventually get pages for themselves once I start watching them and then each episode will get a mini review.

  1. 3% ()
  2. 12 Monkeys ()
  3. The 100 ()
  4. 1899 ()
  5. The Abandons ()
  6. Agatha: Coven of Chaos ()
  7. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ()
  8. Ahsoka ()
  9. Alchemy of Souls ()
  10. Alice in Borderland ()
  11. Altered Carbon ()
  12. American Born Chinese ()
  13. American Primeval ()
  14. Andor ()
  15. The Ark ()
  16. Ash vs the Evil Dead ()
  17. Atlantis ()
  18. Avatar: The Last Airbender ()
  19. Babylon Berlin ()
  20. The Bad Batch ()
  21. Banshee ()
  22. Barry ()
  23. Based on a True Story ()
  24. Bates Motel
  25. Battlestar Galactica ()
  26. Beautiful Creatures ()
  27. Beef ()
  28. Beforeigners ()
  29. Better Call Saul ()
  30. Better Than Us ()
  31. Between ()
  32. The Big Door Prize ()
  33. Biohackers ()
  34. Black ()
  35. Black Knight ()
  36. Black Mirror ()
  37. Black Snow ()
  38. Blood of Zeus ()
  39. Bloodhounds ()
  40. Bodyguard ()
  41. The Book of Nora ()
  42. Breaking Bad ()
  43. Bright ()
  44. Britannia ()
  45. Cabinet of Curiosities ()
  46. Carnival Row ()
  47. Carnivale ()
  48. Castlevania ()
  49. Cheers ()
  50. Citadel ()
  51. Class of ’09 ()
  52. The Clearing ()
  53. Colony ()
  54. The Company You Keep ()
  55. Condor ()
  56. Constantine ()
  57. The Consultant ()
  58. The Continental (2023)
  59. Copenhagen Cowboy ()
  60. Copycat Killer ()
  61. Cowboy Ninja Viking ()
  62. Cunk on Earth ()
  63. Da Vinci’s Demons ()
  64. Dark Angel ()
  65. Dark Knight ()
  66. Dark Matter ()
  67. The Dark Tower ()
  68. Dark Winds ()
  69. Mrs Davis ()
  70. Dead Like Me ()
  71. Dead Man’s Hand ()
  72. Dead to Me ()
  73. Dead Ringers ()
  74. Deadloch ()
  75. The Devil’s Hour ()
  76. The Diplomat ()
  77. A Discovery of Witches ()
  78. Django ()
  79. Doctor Who ()
  80. Dollhouse ()
  81. Domina ()
  82. Dominion ()
  83. Drops of God ()
  84. Elite ()
  85. Emerald City ()
  86. The End of the Fucking World ()
  87. Errementari ()
  88. The English ()
  89. Evil ()
  90. Extraordinary ()
  91. The Fall ()
  92. Fake Profile ()
  93. Falling Skies ()
  94. Farscape ()
  95. Fear the Walking Dead ()
  96. Firefly ()
  97. Florida Man ()
  98. For All Mankind ()
  99. Forever ()
  100. Foundation ()
  101. Freeridge ()
  102. Friends ()
  103. Fringe ()
  104. From ()
  105. Fubar ()
  106. The Fugitive ()
  107. Future Man ()
  108. Game of Thrones ()
  109. Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon ()
  110. Gangs of London ()
  111. Garcia ()
  112. Gen V ()
  113. The Good Place ()
  114. Gray Matter (2023)
  115. The Great ()
  116. Grimm ()
  117. The Gryphon ()
  118. Halo ()
  119. Hannibal ()
  120. The Hated ()
  121. Head Count ()
  122. Heavenly Delusion ()
  123. Hello Tomorrow ()
  124. His Dark Materials ()
  125. House of the Dragon
  126. Humans ()
  127. Ice Fantasy ()
  128. In the Flesh ()
  129. In From the Cold ()
  130. Ink ()
  131. Into the Badlands ()
  132. Invasion ()
  133. Inventing Anna ()
  134. Invincible ()
  135. Island ()
  136. Jericho ()
  137. Justified ()
  138. Kaleidoscope ()
  139. Kingdom ()
  140. The Last Kingdom ()
  141. The Last Man on Earth ()
  142. The Last Ship ()
  143. The Last of Us ()
  144. The Leftovers ()
  145. Legacies ()
  146. Legends of Tomorrow ()
  147. Legion ()
  148. Liaison ()
  149. The Librarians ()
  150. The Lincoln Lawyer ()
  151. Locke and Key ()
  152. Lockwood & Co ()
  153. Loki ()
  154. The Longest Promise ()
  155. Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power ()
  156. Lost ()
  157. Love & Death ()
  158. Love to Hate You ()
  159. Lucifer ()
  160. Luna Nera ()
  161. Mc Mafia ()
  162. Mandalorian ()
  163. The Magicians ()
  164. The Mandalorian ()
  165. Marvel’s Runaways ()
  166. M*A*S*H* ()
  167. Mayfair Witches ()
  168. Mayor of Kingtown ()
  169. Merlin ()
  170. Midnight Mass ()
  171. The Ministry of Time ()
  172. Minx ()
  173. Misfits ()
  174. Mortal ()
  175. Motherland: Fort Salem ()
  176. The Nevers ()
  177. The Night Agent ()
  178. Nikita ()
  179. The Nurse ()
  180. The Office (UK) ()
  181. The Office (US) ()
  182. Old Henry ()
  183. The Old Man ()
  184. The Old Way ()
  185. Once Upon a Time ()
  186. Only Murders in this Building ()
  187. The Originals ()
  188. Orphan Black ()
  189. The Orville ()
  190. Outer Banks ()
  191. Outer Range ()
  192. Outlast ()
  193. Outlander ()
  194. The Outpost ()
  195. The Pact ()
  196. Pantheon ()
  197. Paper Girls ()
  198. Party Down ()
  199. Penny Dreadful ()
  200. The Peripheral ()
  201. Joe Pickett ()
  202. Plan B ()
  203. Poker Face ()
  204. The Power ()
  205. Preacher ()
  206. Primeval ()
  207. The Protector ()
  208. Queen of the South ()
  209. Rabbit Hole ()
  210. Ragnarok ()
  211. Reborn Rich ()
  212. The Recruit ()
  213. The Redeemer ()
  214. The Regulators ()
  215. Resident Alien ()
  216. The Resort ()
  217. The Responder ()
  218. Revolution ()
  219. The Rig ()
  220. Rings of Power ()
  221. Rosewell New Mexico ()
  222. Russian Doll ()
  223. St. Elsewhere ()
  224. The Sandman ()
  225. Saint X ()
  226. Salvation ()
  227. Sarah Connor Chronicles ()
  228. Miss Scarlet and the Duke ()
  229. School Spirits ()
  230. Scrubs ()
  231. Season of the Witch ()
  232. Secret Invasion ()
  233. See ()
  234. Seinfeld ()
  235. Sense 8 ()
  236. Seven Kings ()
  237. Severance ()
  238. Shadow and Bone ()
  239. The Shield ()
  240. Shrinking ()
  241. The Silent Sea ()
  242. Silo ()
  243. The Sinner ()
  244. Siren ()
  245. Six Feet Under ()
  246. Sleepy Hollow ()
  247. Slip ()
  248. Slow Horses ()
  249. The Snow Girl ()
  250. Snowpiercer ()
  251. The Sopranos ()
  252. Special Ops: Lioness ()
  253. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ()
  254. Star Wars: Visions ()
  255. Star Wars: Visions 2 ()
  256. Stargate SG-1 ()
  257. The Stinger ()
  258. Stitchers ()
  259. The Strain ()
  260. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ()
  261. Stranger Things ()
  262. Strike Back ()
  263. Superman and Lois ()
  264. Supernatural ()
  265. Swarm ()
  266. Sweet Tooth ()
  267. Ted Lasso ()
  268. Teen Wolf ()
  269. The Terminal List ()
  270. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ()
  271. The Terror ()
  272. Them ()
  273. Tidelands ()
  274. Tiny Beautiful Things ()
  275. Titans ()
  276. To the Lake ()
  277. Tooth Pari: When Love Bites ()
  278. Transatlantic ()
  279. Tribes of Europa
  280. True Lies ()
  281. Tulsa King ()
  282. Turn of the Tide ()
  283. Twisted Metal ()
  284. Unicorn: Warriors Eternal ()
  285. Unprisoned ()
  286. Unstable ()
  287. Upload ()
  288. Utopia (2013)
  289. Utopia ()
  290. Vampire Diaries ()
  291. Van Helsing ()
  292. Vikings ()
  293. Vikings: Valhalla ()
  294. Vortex ()
  295. Walker: Independence ()
  296. The Walking Dead ()
  297. War Sailor ()
  298. Warrior ()
  299. Warrior Nun ()
  300. Wayward Pines ()
  301. Wednesday ()
  302. Welcome to Eden ()
  303. Westworld ()
  304. What We Do in the Shadows ()
  305. The Wheel of Time ()
  306. White House Plumbers ()
  307. The Winchesters ()
  308. The Witcher ()
  309. Wolf ()
  310. Wolf Creek ()
  311. Wolf Like Me ()
  312. Wolf Pack ()
  313. Wynona Earp ()
  314. X-Files ()
  315. Yellowjackets ()
  316. Yellowstone ()
  317. Your Honor ()
  318. Z Nation ()
  319. Zoo ()

Art Library

Photography - A Feminist History

Photography – A Feminist History

My personal collection of art books, sitting there on my shelves.

This used to be a little bigger but I decided a while back to concentrate more on later 19th century and onward works, particularly feminist art and photography.

Last updated: 5th January 2025

  • 100 Artists’ Manifestos – Alex Danchev
  • 100 Ideas That Changed Photography – Mary Warner Marian
  • 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth – Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos
  • 1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die – Paul Lowe
  • About Looking – John Berger
  • Abstract Art – Anna Moszynska
  • Aesthetics and its Discontents – Jacques Ranciere
  • Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art – Janet Wolff
  • After Photography – Fred Ritchin
  • American Geography – Matt Black
  • The Americans – Robert Frank
  • Another Country: British Documentary Photography since 1945 – Gerry Badger
  • Art of the Extreme: 1905—1914 – Philip Hook
  • The Art of Feminism – Lucinda Gosling et al
  • Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods – Michael Hatt, Charlotte Klonk
  • Art History and its Methods: A Critical Anthology – Eric Fernie
  • Art & Illusion – E.H. Gombrich
  • Art and Its Histories: A Reader – Steve Edwards
  • Art in History – Martin Kemp
  • Art and Photography – David Campany
  • Art in Renaissance Italy – Evelyn Welch
  • Art in Theory: 1648—1815 – Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, Jason Gaiger
  • Art in Theory: 1815—1900 – Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, Jason Geiger
  • Art in Theory: 1900—2000 – Charles Harrison, Paul Wood
  • Art Theory: An Historical Introduction – Robert Williams
  • Art in Theory: The West in the World – Paul Wood, Leon Wainwright, Charles Harrison
  • Art of the Avant-Gardes – Steve Edwards, Paul Wood
  • Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader – Jason Gaiger, Paul Wood
  • Art Worlds – Howard S. Becker
  • The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
  • Bachelors – Rosalind Krauss
  • Basics Creative Photography 02: Context and Narrative – Maria Short
  • Basic Critical Theory for Photographers – Ashley la Grange
  • Beg, Steal & Borrow: Artists Against Originality – Robert Shore
  • Bert Hardy – Tom Hopkinson
  • Body: The Photobook – Nathalie Herschdorfer
  • The Book of Symbols – Ami Ronnberg
  • Bookcraft – Heather Weston
  • A Brief History of Curating New Media Art – Sarah Cook et al
  • A Brief History of Protest Art – Aindrea Emelife
  • British Photographers – Cecil Beaton
  • British Surrealism & Other Realities: The Sherwin Collection – mima
  • Calligraphy for the Beginner – Tom Gourdie
  • The Calligraphy Ideas Book – Lyndsey Gribble
  • Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes
  • Celtic Art & Design – Iain Zaczek
  • Central Saint Martins Foundation – Lucy Alexander, Timothy Meara
  • The Challenge of the Avant-Garde – Paul Wood
  • Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums – Carol Duncan
  • Collins Complete Artist’s Manual – Collins*
  • Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory – Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman
  • The Complete Book of Drawing – Barrington Barber
  • The Complete Engravings, Etchings & Drypoints of Albrecht Durer – Walter L. Strauss
  • Complete Guide to Black and White Photography – John Hedgecoe
  • The Complete Guide to Calligraphy – Professor Ralph Cleminson
  • Complete Guide to Watercolour Painting – David Bellamy
  • Concepts of Modern Art: From Fauvism to Postmodernism – Nikos Stangos
  • Conceptual Art – Tony Godfrey
  • A Concise History of Modern Painting – Herbert Read
  • Confabulations – John Berger
  • Constructing Wooden Images – Carl Van de Velde et al
  • Contemporary Cultures of Display – Emma Barker
  • The Courage to Create – Rollo May
  • Creation: Art Since the Beginning – John-Paul Stonard
  • Creative Acts for Curious People – Sarah Stein Greenberg
  • The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life – Twyla Tharp
  • Creative Handmade Paper – David Watson
  • Critical Terms for Art History – Robert S. Nelson, Richard Shiff
  • Cuba by Korda – Christopher Loviny
  • The Curator’s Handbook – Adrian George
  • Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice – Christina Z. Anderson
  • Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes) – Hal Foster
  • Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women’s Practice – Gill Perry
  • DO/DESIGN: Why Beauty is the Key to Everything – Alan Moore
  • Documents – Diane Arbus, Max Rosenberg
  • Don’t Get a Job… Make a Job – Gem Barton
  • Douthwaite: Paintings and Drawings 1951—1988 – Third Eye Centre
  • Draw Paint Print Like the Great Artists – Marion Denchars
  • Draw: Conversations Around the Legacy of Drawing – mima
  • The Drawing Ideas Book – Frances Stanfield
  • Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing – Mick Maslen, Jack Southern
  • The Duchamp Dictionary – Thomas Girst
  • Duchamp Manray Picabia – Jennifer Mundy
  • The Dusseldorf School of Photography – Stefan Gronert
  • The Encyclopedia of Papermaking and Bookbinding – Heidi Reimer-Epp, Mary Reimer
  • English Medieval Tiles – Elizabeth Eames
  • English Stained Glass – Painton Cowen
  • Europeans: Henri Cartier-Bresson – Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Clair
  • Everything, All the Time, Everywhere – Stuart Jeffries
  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating – Hans Ulrich Obrist
  • The Family of Man – Edward Steichen
  • Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings – Hugo Chapman, Marzia Faietti
  • Framing Feminism: Art and. the Women’s Movement 1970—1985 – Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock
  • The Fundamentals of Drawing: A Complete Professional Course for Artists – Barrington Barber
  • Gaudi: Complete Works – Isabel Artigas
  • Gender and Art – Gill Perry
  • The Genius of Photography: How Photography Has Changed Our Lives – Gerry Badger
  • Geometry of Design – Kimberly Elam
  • German Expressionist Woodcuts – Shane Weller
  • Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery – Jill Dunkerton et al
  • The Global Art Compass: New Directions in 21st-Century Art – Alistair Hicks
  • Gorbals Children: Joseph McKenzie A Study In Photographs – Joseph MkKenzie
  • Great Women Artists – Phaidon
  • Green Waters – Alec Finlay
  • Handmade Prints – Anne Desmet, Jim Anderson
  • Hayao Miyazaki – Jessica Niebel
  • The History of British Art: 600—1600 – Tim Ayers
  • The History of British Art: 1600—1870 – David Bindman
  • The History of British Art: 1870—Now – Chris Stephens
  • A History of Photography: From 1839 to the present – The George Eastman House Collection
  • Homes Fit for Heroes – Bill Brandt
  • How to Make Books – Esther K. Smith
  • How to See the World – Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • How to Write Art History – Anne D’Alleva
  • Illuminations – Walter Benjamin
  • Image Music Text – Roland Barthes
  • In the Balkans – Nikos Economopoulos
  • In the Darkroom – Sarah Kennel
  • Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book – Ellen Lupton
  • Ink on Paper: poetry and art – Colette Bryce
  • Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space – Brian O’Doherty
  • Just Draw It! – Sam Piyasena, Beverly Philp
  • Keeping an Eye Open – Julian Barnes
  • Larry Burrows: Compassionate Photographer – Time Life
  • Learn to Paint Watercolours – Alwyn Crawshaw
  • Learning Linocut – Susan Yeates
  • Light: Science & Magic – Fil Hunter
  • Light Matters – Vicki Goldberg
  • Linocut for Artists and Designers – Nick Morley
  • Linocut: Learn in a Weekend – Nick Morley
  • Magnum Magnum – Brigitte Lardinois
  • Make a Zine! – Joe Biel, Bill Brent
  • Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms – Alisa Golden
  • Making Mini Books: Big Ideas for 30+ Little Projects – Kathleen McCafferty
  • Martin Parr – Sandra S. Phillips
  • Masters of the Camera – Gene Thornton
  • Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900—1940 – Sarah Hermanson Meister
  • Medieval Art – Veronica Sekules
  • The Medium is the Massage – Marshall, McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
  • The Meaning of Art – Herbert Read
  • The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction – Laurie Schneider Adams
  • Methods & Theories of Art History – Anne D’Alleva
  • Modern Sculpture – Herbert Read
  • Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton – Michael Bracewell
  • Modernism – Richard Weston
  • A Moment in Time: Scottish Contributions to Photography 1840—1920 – John Hannavy
  • Museums After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement – Griselda Pollock, Joyce Zemans
  • Mythologies – Roland Barthes
  • The Nature of Photographs – Stephen Shore
  • The New Art History – A>L> Rees, F. Borzello
  • The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain – Betty Edwards
  • The New Museology – Peter Vergo
  • The New Philistines – Sohrab Ahmari
  • The New Photography – Catharine Reeve, Marilyn Sward
  • North Country Quilts – Dorothy Osler
  • The Northern Renaissance – Jeffrey Chipps Smith
  • Northern Renaissance Art – Susie Nash
  • The Object – Antony Hudek
  • Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology – Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock
  • On Art and Life – John Ruskin
  • On Not Being Able to Paint – Joanna Field
  • One Thousand Years of Manga – Brigitte Koyama-Richard
  • The Ongoing Moment – Geoff Dyer
  • On Photography – Susan Sontag
  • Orientalism – Edward W. Said
  • The Origins of Postmodernity – Perry Anderson
  • Oscar Marzaroli: Photography 1959—1968 – Bourne 2010
  • Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives – Colin Rhodes
  • Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris – Thomas E. Crow
  • The Papercraft Ideas Book – Jessica Baldry
  • Photo Art Processes – Nancy Howell-Koehler
  • Photo Idea Index – Jim Krause
  • The Photobook: A History volume I – Martin Parr, Gerry Badger
  • The Photobook: A History volume II – Martin Parr, Gerry Badger
  • Photobox: The Essential Collection 250 Images You Need to See – Roberto Koch
  • The Photograph – Graham Clarke
  • The Photograph as Contemporary Art – Charlotte Cotton
  • Photographers A—Z – Hans-Michael Koetzle
  • The Photographer’s Eye – Michael Freeman
  • The Photographer’s Eye – John Szarkowski
  • Photographers on Photography – Henry Carroll
  • The Photographer’s Playbook – Jason Fulford, Gregory Halpern
  • Photography: A Critical Introduction – Liz Wells
  • Photography: Essays & Images – Beaumont Newhall
  • Photography: A Feminist History – Emma Lewis
  • The Photography Book – Phaidon
  • The Photography Ideas Book – Lorna Yabsley
  • The Photography Reader – Liz Wells
  • Photography Rules – Paul Lowe
  • Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art – Brooks Johnson
  • Photography: The Whole Story – Juliet Hacking
  • The Polaroid Book – Steve Crist
  • Portfolio #39
  • Portraits: John Berger on Artists – Tom Overton
  • Practical Course in Watercolour Painting: Composition and Interpretation – Jose M. Parramon
  • Practical Course in Watercolors: Techniques & Color – Jose M. Parramon
  • Principles of Art History – Heinrich Wolfflin
  • Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques & Truly Original Projects – Christine Schmidt
  • Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes – Beth Grabowski, Bill Fick
  • The Printmaking Handbook – Louise Woods
  • The Printmaking Ideas Book – Frances Stanfield, Lucy McGeown
  • Printmaking: Traditional and Contemporary Techniques – Ann d’Arcy Hughes, Hebe Vernon-Morris
  • Propaganda – Mark Holborn
  • Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing – Mike Parry
  • Railway Mania – Bonnie Camplin
  • Read This If You Want to Be Great at Drawing – Selwyn Leamy
  • Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs – Henry Carroll
  • Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People – Henry Carroll
  • Realism in 20th Century Painting – Brendan Prendeville
  • Regarding the Pain of Others – Susan Sontag
  • Renaissance Art Reconsidered – Carol M. Richardson
  • Renaissance Women Patrons – Catherine E. King
  • Renew Marxist Art History – Warren Carter et al
  • The Return of the Real – Hal Foster
  • The Revolution of Everyday Life – Raoul Vaneigem
  • Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910—1960 – Dawn Ades, Alison McClean
  • The Rodchenko Family Workshop – Stepanova
  • Rose Frain Survey – Rose Frain
  • The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics – Berys Gaut, Dominic McIver Lopes
  • See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974&mdash1990
  • The Seeing Eye: The Life and Work of George Oliver – Cordelia Oliver
  • Shades of Grey: Glasgow 1956—1987 – Oscar Marzaroli, William McIlvanney
  • Shades of Scotland 1956—1988 – Oscar Marzaroli, James Grassie
  • Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art – Simon Baker
  • Shaping the World – Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
  • Signs & Symbols in Christian Art – George Ferguson
  • The Sketchbook Challenge – Sue Bleiweiss
  • Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives – Richard Brereton
  • Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord
  • Stained Glass Basics – Chris Rich
  • The Story of Art Without Men – Katy Hessel
  • Styles, Schools and Movements – Amy Dempsey
  • The Sublime – Simon Morley
  • Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington – Joanna Moorhead
  • Symbols and Allegories in Art – Matilde Battistini
  • The Tarot of Leonora Carrington – Susan Aberth, Tere Arcq
  • Ten Thousand Years of Pottery – Emmanuel Cooper
  • Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 – Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung
  • Think Like a Street Photographer – Matt Stuart
  • Thinking About Art – Penny Huntsman
  • Thinking About Exhibitions – Reesa Greenberg et al
  • This Means This This Means That – Sean Hall
  • This Pleasant Land – Rosalind Jana
  • Tools and Materials for Calligraphy – Patricia Lovett
  • Tove Jansson – Exhibition Catalogue
  • Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go – Shaun McNiff
  • Turner: The Vaughan Bequest – Christopher Baker
  • Understanding a Photograph – John Berger
  • Unravelling Women’s Art – P.L. Henderson
  • A Victim of Anonymity – Neil Macgregor
  • Vision and Difference – Griselda Pollock
  • Walker Evans 55 – Luc Sante
  • Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner – Matthew Palmer
  • Watercolour Challenge: Practical Painting Course – Channel 4 Books
  • The Watercolour Ideas Book – Joanna Goss
  • Ways of Curating – Jans Ulrich Obrist
  • Ways of Seeing – John Berger
  • What is Black Art? – Alice Correia
  • What Is Contemporary Art? – e-flux journal
  • What They Didn’t Teach You in Photo School – Demetrius Fordham
  • Why Are We ‘Artists’? 100 World Art Manifestos – Jessica Lack
  • Why It Does Not Have to Be in Focus – Jackie Higgins
  • Why Photographers Prefer Cloudy Days – Haje Jan Kamps
  • Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That – Susie Hodge
  • Without Day – Alec Finlay
  • The Workshop of Thomas Bewick: A Pictorial Survey – Iain Bain
  • A World History of Photography – Naomi Rosenblum

Abumi-guchi

Abumi-guchi

Abumi-guchi

An abumi-guchi (鐙口, lit. “stirrup mouth”) is a strange furry yōkai, or Japanese monster, that is illustrated in Sekien Toriyama’s Gazu Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro.

It is a type of tsukumogami formed from a stirrup, usually one that once belonged to a dead soldier that fell in battle. It is said that the abumi-guchi will wait where it lies for the dead soldier to return.

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