Book News from Pesda Press
Or why we enjoy a disproportionate advantage as first language English readers. The UK’s size in proportion to it’s share in the number of books published annually worldwide. Thames & Hudson’s new title The Atlas of the Real World presents drab data in an engaging way. Check out more images at Creative Review.
See you there. Drop by our stand to check out a sample of the new biography of Andy Jackson, Tall Stories. Come and have a chat with Franco and browse our bookshelves.
For those of you who missed out on the series of pamphlets which accompanied the Guardian newspaper last week you can review most of the articles online here. The most useful of which was perhaps last Saturday’s The Guardian Book of English Language – a condensed version of their book Guardian Style. Having cast my eye over a number of style guides and settled upon The Oxford Guide to Style (or Hart’s Rules as it is known in some incarnations) as the guiding light for Pesda Press, I can also recommend Guardian Style as a useful resource. Charitably, the Guardian have also made a great deal of their style guide available online here – although it is more accessible as a book.
apostrofly
“an insect that lands at random on the printed page, depositing an apostrophe wherever it lands” according to the Guardian’s former readers’ editor.
Today I went to meet Dave Savage of Downtime kayaks to float chop my first custom squirt boat. Dave first moulded the deck and hull and added a cockpit, before roughly chopping the two parts for my weight. The two halves were then taped together with gaffer tape to allow me to sit in the boat an float it on the water. Dave’s keen eye was looking for a balanced boat, the rate at which the bow plunged (a good sign is if a bow screw can be initiated from a forward lean) and sizing up the areas in which more volume could be chopped out.
Dave’s own Wisper (the first one from the mould in the UK) is a mystery machine, he can go neck deep on flat water. Whilst over in Wales for the day, Dave also explored the eddies at Aberglasyn and found that even in the low flows of the day, the crystal waters gave up two or three second head-unders in the Wisper.
I’ll be keeping my eye on the Lledr, Menai Strait (and now Aberglaslyn) for mystery opportunities, so do check in to find out what’s going. See what Dave has done with my boat below.
