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  • Paul Nash: Wonderfully particular

    23 May 2022

    I had my beady eye on this book coming out. Paul Nash is an artist and designer I always find...

  • The story of a carrot

    4 April 2018

    Shelf Appeal is far too sniffy to take part in hashtag nonsense on social media. Except. This one was too...

  • Before the wild things

    5 June 2016

    Shelf Appeal likes an exhibition catalogue. Or two. Particularly those little catalogues it seems aren’t viable to produce much any...

  • Playtime

    17 February 2016

      Shelf Appeal tries not to collect children’s books. For where would that end? Buckling shelves and a collecting headache,...

  • Scientific and technical

    26 January 2016

      This is just the sort of back book cover Shelf Appeal likes. Because as an amateur part time ephemeral-detail...

  • Felt toys

    30 August 2015

    Dryad Press books are very often lovely. They appeal to the craft side of my brain. They make me want...

  • Small picture books

    14 August 2015

    Shelf Appeal can deny no longer the presence of at least one collection on the shelves. Of small books, booklets...

  • Up my street

    21 June 2015

    It is always nice to see people following their passion. Design for Today is a new imprint making very nice...

  • The stationer’s shop

    31 May 2015

    Illustrations of shops and shopping pull me in like a magnet. Historical ones. New ones. I like them in a...

  • The play’s the thing

    19 April 2015

    Shelf Appeal likes a dramatic book cover. This is a great and certainly dramatic one despite its small size (10...

  • London in your pocket

    29 March 2015

    This little book London Craftsman is a common thing. Not in its looks or content, you understand. But it is...

  • Hen’s eggs

    20 March 2015

    Cooking is not so big here at Shelf Appeal. The accoutrements of cooking, on the other hand, often make it...

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