Aug 9 – Fog
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…in this unusual, finely judged and wrought work, [Kathryn Scanlan] has created beautifully resonant lines of what amounts to prose poetry out of the found diaries of an elderly stranger and in doing so has reminded us of the beauty that can be discovered in the ordinary and in ordinary speech. – Lydia Davis
As quiet as it is evocative, Aug 9 – Fog is a testimony to life as a labour of love, in prose that seems to live and breathe on its own. – Preti Taneja
These Scanlan passages of life – you should take them with you wherever you go. – Vi Khi Nao
Book Works is delighted to announce we will be publishing the UK edition of Kathryn Scanlan’s first novel, Aug 9 – Fog, in May 2025.
Originally published in the US in 2019, it is available here for the first time and can be pre-ordered now at a reduced price of £14.
Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited, arranged, and rearranged the diarists’ words into the composition that is Aug 9 – Fog.
Kathryn Scanlan is the author, also, of The Dominant Animal and Kick the Latch. Originally from Iowa, she lives in Los Angeles. More here
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Special Editions Sale
Celebrate Valentine’s day on our backs with Phyllis Christopher’s fearless and tender photographs, fusing lesbian sex and queer protest against the backdrop of a city in flux – or choose a gift from many other Book Works special editions, all 10% off for February.
All funds raised from sales are invested back into our programme supporting new work by emerging artists and practitioners, so you can treat yourself to a bargain while knowing you’re supporting our work.
Editions include work by Phyllis Christopher, Mark Dion, Stewart Home, Katrina Palmer, Laure Prouvost, Fiona Tan, Mark Titchner and many more!
Featured image On Our Backs Pin-Up, San Francisco, CA, 2003 by Phyllis Christopher.
Digital giclée b&w photograph on Fine Art Smooth 240 gsm paper
203 x 254mm
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered by the artist
Unframed
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Book of the Month: I Know Where I’m Going by Michael Bracewell and Linder
I Know Where I’m Going: A Guide to Morecambe and Heysham by Michael Bracewell and Linder is our February 2025 Book of The Month, with 30% off all month.
A Linder retrospective, Danger Came Smiling, is open at the Hayward Gallery from 11 February–5 May 2025.
I Know Where I’m Going is a collaborative book by writer Michael Bracewell and artist Linder. It functions as a gazetteer for the Heysham and Morecambe coast, once described on a Victorian postcard as ‘The Naples of the North’. Whilst investigating and illustrating how a landscape can recollect its own past with a particular regional intensity, this book is also concerned with how our experience of the future can be discovered through history.
A key section in the book looks at the then semi-derelict Midland Hotel, built overlooking Morecambe Bay and considered to be one of the most important Art Deco buildings in Britain. Constructed in 1933, the ocean-liner shape of Oliver Hill’s breathtaking designs still retain their sense of sleek modernity − its exterior walls were treated with a mixture of carborundum powder and crushed blue glass which was electrically polished so the whiteness of the building literally glittered in the sun. Then there were the guests: Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, the Earl of Derby and Coco Chanel who, as legend has it, flew up from Cap d’Antibes landing her flying boat on Morecambe Bay. I Know Where I’m Going delivers an invaluable and visually demanding insight into the nature of regional studies from two celebrated creative practitioners.
These are first editions, published in 2003 as part of the New Writing series, guest-edited by Michael Bracewell; your chance to grab a future collector’s edition!
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Join us at the Artists’ Bookmarket, Edinburgh’s annual celebration of art publishing
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Book Works will be in Edinburgh this weekend for the Artists’ Bookmarket at Fruitmarket for Edinburgh’s annual celebration of art publishing. The event runs over two busy weekend days with stalls laid out to showcase a wide array of work. Artists’ Bookmarket is complemented by a busy talks and workshops programme.
More information here
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