Our Books

By Middleton & Rogers

Hardback £14.50 

An inspiring and entertaining memoir by Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers, founders of the Puppet Theatre Barge on the river Thames. "Fortunately we had a dream, and alongside of it a good deal of energy, naivety, recklessness and determination."

By Juan Miñana (author), 

Cath Forrest (translator) 

£6.99

A summer of plague in 17th Century Barcelona. A doctor fights the epidemic while a mysterious patient does battle with time itself. An atmospheric historical novel with a metaphysical twist by Juan Miñana.

A jaquemart is an automaton, the mechanical statue that strikes the bell with its hammer to mark the hours on a public clock. As with a marionette, the impassivity of its mask allows all kinds of ideas and emotions to be projected upon it. But whereas a marionette is animated by the skill of a puppeteer manipulating its strings, in a jaquemart the human skill goes into crafting the intricate clockwork that brings it to life. 

Royal watchmaker Juan de Ameno works obsessively on a jaquemart for the clocktower of Barcelona cathedral, a bronze figure with a sinister resemblance to himself that he hopes will bring him some kind of immortality. As the Black Cloaked Lady of the plague spreads death through the wards of the Holy Cross hospital, where monks tend the sick and aromatic bonfires burn in the courtyards, Doctor Buenaventura Deulocrega tries to persuade him to take a gentler, more human approach to the passing of Time. 

Author: Juan Miñana

Translation and cover photo: Cath Forrest

By Juan Miñana (author)

Cath Forrest (translator)

Paperback £8.99

A summer of plague in 17th Century Barcelona. A doctor fights the epidemic while a mysterious patient does battle with time itself. An atmospheric historical novel with a metaphysical twist by Juan Miñana.

A jaquemart is an automaton, the mechanical statue that strikes the bell with its hammer to mark the hours on a public clock. As with a marionette, the impassivity of its mask allows all kinds of ideas and emotions to be projected upon it. But whereas a marionette is animated by the skill of a puppeteer manipulating its strings, in a jaquemart the human skill goes into crafting the intricate clockwork that brings it to life. 

Royal watchmaker Juan de Ameno works obsessively on a jaquemart for the clocktower of Barcelona cathedral, a bronze figure with a sinister resemblance to himself that he hopes will bring him some kind of immortality. As the Black Cloaked Lady of the plague spreads death through the wards of the Holy Cross hospital, where monks tend the sick and aromatic bonfires burn in the courtyards, Doctor Buenaventura Deulocrega tries to persuade him to take a gentler, more human approach to the passing of Time. 

Author: Juan Miñana

Translation and cover photo: Cath Forrest

By Grenville Middleton

Hardback: £14.95

An engaging memoir by Gren Middleton, co-founder of the Puppet Theatre Barge on the river Thames. "I liked the fact that for Gren and Juliet this wasn't an arbitrary stop-gap until something better came along, it was their dream... ...The book is much more than an account of their experiment in puppet theatre, it's also the autobiography of a Middleton, and Gren's tale of his ancestors has a strong theme of travel and adventure as he traces his family back to Victorian entrepreneurship in South Africa, where he was born." - Michael Palin

By Grenville Middleton

£5.99

An engaging memoir by Gren Middleton, co-founder of the Puppet Theatre Barge on the river Thames. "I liked the fact that for Gren and Juliet this wasn't an arbitrary stop-gap until something better came along, it was their dream... ...The book is much more than an account of their experiment in puppet theatre, it's also the autobiography of a Middleton, and Gren's tale of his ancestors has a strong theme of travel and adventure as he traces his family back to Victorian entrepreneurship in South Africa, where he was born." - Michael Palin

By Cath Forrest

Paperback £14.99

Black and white photographs showing everyday life in the Orkhon Valley, cradle of Mongolia's nomadic tradition.

With a foreword by Jess Brooks, founder of ethical travel company Eternal Landscapes and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Photos by Cath Forrest

Foreword by Jess Brooks

By Cath Forrest

Paperback £12.99

The photos in this book, taken on old fashioned colour film, come from the early 2000s before the hipsters arrived in Dalston. They attempt to capture the particular character of the neighbourhood back then, a home full of traces of other homes. 

With a foreword by renowned Hackney psychogeographer Iain Sinclair.

Photos: Cath Forrest

Foreword: Iain Sinclair

Book design: Jenni Navratil

A book of poems and photographs by Cath Forrest

Paperback £12.99 

Cath Forrest took these colour photos through the windows of her family home in Oxford during the year she spent dismantling it after her mother was put into a nursing home. Alongside poems that hint at a painful yet rich and complex process, they attempt to capture a little of that last light. 

Photos and poems by Cath Forrest

Book design by Jenni Navratil

Compiled by Grenville Middleton

Paperback £4.50 Plus P&P

Available direct- Please drop us an email to get your copy 

Written by K.L. Wadeson

Illustrated by Lauren Holliday

£7.99 Plus P&P

Available direct from the author

Written by K.L. Wadeson

Illustrated by Lauren Holliday

Price: £7.99

Written by K.L. Wadeson

Illustrated by Lauren Holliday

Price: £4.99