We've now got the whole series of Mersey Minis back from the printer, although Volumes 4 and 5 won't be launched till Sept and Nov respectively. They are scrumptious – shouldn't brag, I suppose, but they are just yummm. The spines of the set, lined up together, look like ice cream strips - blackcurrant, pistachio, strawberry, blueberry and peach. Positively lickable. And in a tin (which they will be come Christmas) we might sell more in food shops than bookshops.
And that's just the colours. The illustrations are fabulous – beautiful linocuts, for te covers and the 15 icons scattered through the text. And as for the reading matter – fascinating, enchanting, poignant, wry – all those jolly adjectives.
There's been nothing like them before – the combination of design, size, and content – little things, postcard sized but with plenty of good reading - perfect for pockets and handbags for reading en route or sneaky distraction in boring circumstances.
They're very different to our normal case-bound, colour photography look, and we're thrilled to bits with them, and (more to the point) with people's reactions to them. How lovely it is to have one's babies admired and cooed over....
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