Volume titles and their origin
All the different volume titles are passages from books that I happened to be reading during the preparation of a particular volume with the exception of TWC 1 & 2, and a further exception, the TWC 20 title is derived from a lyric in a track by Bright Eyes. I have also included links through to amazon.co.uk just in case you're interested in purchasing.
- the whelk collection - manchester via paris
- twc 2 - inspiration and laziness
- full of noise and stones - the hobbit - j r r tolekin
- amid the hemlocks - the lord of the rings - j r r tolkein
- to other worlds again - gormenghast - mervyn peake
- in which she was dead and a princess - our lady of the flowers - jean genet
- ibid - generic art history text books
- what the garden says - venus and tannhauser - aubrey beardsley
- yellow red - petersburg - andrei bely
- through a city of threaded glass that he will soon destroy - the age of reason - jean paul sartre
- tales of two cities (sic) - a tale of two cities - charles dickens
- vagrancy and the world -the age of reason - jean paul sartre (again)
- suspended between sky and sea - the island of the day before - umberto eco
- addendum - generic book additions
- the last of the sevilles - human croquet - kate atkinson
- am i my name - miss smilla's feeling for snow - peter høeg
- splayed - the gabriel club - joydeep roy-bhattacharya
- this is how we live - be faithful unto death - zsigmond moricz
- tales of the ring and camp - the croxley master: and other tales of the ring and camp - arthur conan doyle
- i always get lost when i leave the village - train underwater - bright eyes