Leanne Shapton author of Important Artifacts & Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan & Harold Morris & Swimming Studies creates an authorly & artistic response to travel work & being a passenger
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. Leanne Shapton has updated the stream of consciousness method of Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway to give us the appearance & thoughts of different passengers
- about work sex family what they are reading.. . Thus you eavesdrop on a hubbub: all that mental life going on secretly all the time". (Evening Standard). " Authors include the masterly John Lanchester the children of Kids Company comic John OFarrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually theyre delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city". (Evening Standard). " Exquisitely diverse". The Times Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed". (Tom Cox Observer). "A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books". (A Common Reader blog). " The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves.. .A multidimensional literary jigsaw". (Londonist). A series of short sharp city-based vignettes
- some personal some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected full of wit & just the right amount of grit". (Fabric Magazine). A collection of beautiful books Grazia Leanne Shapton is an artist illustrator & writer who was born in Toronto & lives in New York. She is the author of Important Artifacts & Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan & Harold Morris Including Books Street Fashion & Jewelry. Her latest book Swimming Studies is published July 2012."


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The story of the Battle of Waterloo
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