roughbooks

Everything as concentrated and compact as possible, everything as slender, simple and direct as possible. Or as one reader put it: ‘I just want to tell you that there’s nothing I love more than these little books. My daughter’s normally drawn to other corners of the bookshop - but even she adores them: “So what’s that?” “What does it look like?” “A book?” ...  She takes hold of it, leafs through it, gets hooked on a word or two, sits down, doesn’t take her jacket off. Three quarters of an hour later: “Got any more of these?” I gave her no. 16. After she’d read it I noticed her eyes were sparkling... “Mum?” “Yes, you can have it.”’