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WOMAN'S WORLD (2006) "Woman's World, composed wholly of cutouts from women's magazines of the early Sixties, might just be the most wildly original novel produced in this country in the past decade. It tells the screamingly funny and devastating story of a transvestite, Norma Fontaine/Roy Little, in a provincial English town. Like all great artists, Rawle has used the constraints of this exercise
as a fiercely enabling liberation: from the hilarious similes and metaphors
to the manufacturing of a cross-gendered interiority through outward signals
of dress, fabric, housework, washing products, this book is a work of
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WOMAN'S WORLD (2005)
Norma Fontaine lives in a perfect woman's world of handy tips and sensible advice. Whether it's choosing the right foundation garment, polishing a whatnot or practising feminine allure through meticulous grooming, Norma measures life by the standards set in the magazines she reads. Graham Rawle has painstakingly collected words and phrases from 1960s women's magazines in order to produce one of the most original and subversive works of fiction ever published. Once removed from their context, the words have been reassembled to make the unique novel that is Woman's World Æ a work as rich as it is poignant and joyful.
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Diary of an Amateur Photographer (1988) When Michael Whittingham joins his local camera club, he stumbles across a bizarre photograph from 1959, and into a crime investigation that takes him through the seedy world of fifties pin-up photography – a world that has surprising connections with his troubled childhood. Casting himself as amateur photographer, his journal turns into a casebook of evidence where the strange visual clues ultimately provide an answer to the mystery, sealed inside an envelope at the back the book. Uniquely packaged as the journal itself, Diary of an Amateur Photographer lays bare the dark side of suburbia and is a testament to Graham Rawle's extravagant and eccentric talent.
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WONDER BOOK OF FUN (1993) This is probably the strangest puzzle book you will ever encounter. Devotees of Graham Rawle's surreal art will be doubly delighted by his excursion into the lost world of picture puzzles. Meet Neddy and Norton, identical twin horses trying to find each other in horse heaven; spot the deliberate mistake in the week with four Thursdays and identify nine dog's wearing their owners teeth. His bizarre and intriguing creations will provide endless after dinner fun for you and all your friends. |
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LYING DOGGO (1995) First serialised in The Observer, Doggo's tall tales fill the pages of this gorgeous book of giant postcards. But which of them are true? Pit your wits against this pesky pooch, but remember - this is an animal that would double-cross the Dalai Lama for a bowl of Winalot. |
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RETURN OF LOST CONSONANTS (1999) Rawle's ridiculously funny collage illustrations and his dropping of the odd consonant here and there, have been entertaining readers of the Guardian since 1990. The Return of Lost Consonants features the very best of the latest Lost Consonants, with commentary on where on earth these ideas came from! 'After last year's wonderful Diary of an Amateur Photographer,
the excellent Graham Rawle returns with Return of Lost Consonants, taking
the twin disciplines of the pun and the photomontage further than we dared
imagine possible.' |
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LOST CONSONANTS 7 (1997) In the seventh collection of Lost Consonants from The Guardian, the management pull the pug on a research project, firemen wear fame resistant clothing, and farmers organise a sheep hearing contest. 'Graham Rawle's deeply surreal
one-frame gags are for many of us the best thing in the Guardian all week.
One of the greatest simple-but-brilliant running ideas of all time.' |
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LOST CONSONANTS 6 (1996) Tear-out postcards from the surreal world of Graham Rawle, based on his series in the "Weekend Guardian". This collection includes sentences such as "Ruth is sometimes stranger than fiction", "Poussin adds the finishing ouches to his paintings" and "Matisse draws in coloured rayon". 'No household
should be without...the incomparably brilliant Graham Rawle's Lost Consonants
6.' |
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LOST CONSONANTS 5 (1995) In the fifth Lost Consonants postcard book a bride is left sanding at the altar, the judge accepts a pea bargain, and UFO pictures are discovered to be the product of tick photography. |
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LOST CONSONANTS 4 (1994) This fourth collection of Lost Consonants from the Guardian includes a ship that ran around on the rocks, elf addressed envelopes and a policemen trying out his new bulletproof vet. |
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LOST CONSONANTS 3 (1993) Welcome to the surreal world of Lost Consonants where we find children with leaning difficulties, hunters talking a deer through the undergrowth, and a man who leaves hospital with his arm in a plaster cat. |
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MORE LOST CONSONANTS (1992) This, the second collection of Lost Consonants postcards contains the all time favourite, "Every time the doorbell rang, the dog started baking" |
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LOST CONSONANTS (1991) This is a postcard book based on 'Lost Consonants', from the Weekend Guardian. The images show familiar phrases with a twist, such as the "complete woks of Shakespeare", the little boy "who cried wof", a man whose muscles "suddenly went into spam" and those who are the victims of "rug addiction". |
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CASSELL'S RHYMING SLANG (2000) This survey of Rhyming Slang explores the history and diversity of this well loved subset of unconventional English usage with an introduction tracing rhyming slang's origins, thematic listing and full glossary. Twenty black and white illustrations create bizarre scenarios by incorporating the rhyming slang equivalents of various elements within the picture. Hence, 'It was an emotional time and they were all feeling Alan Ladd' |
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