TIMOROUS BEASTIES: TOILE TALES (HB)

Glasgow-based company Timorous Beasties present their fabrics and wallpaper as a form of visual storytelling. In this book, they subvert the convention of illustrating stories by tasking Steven Richardson to textually illustrate twenty-one toile patterns. The resulting stories include the dog that transforms into a snail (The Pocket God), the cormorant tricked by a talking fish (The Sunbird), and the monstrous cabinet minister (The Exilium). This is a book designed exquisitely for the sheer pleasure of gazing and reading.