Graham Rawle

Measuring her life in accordance with the standards set in women's magazines, Norma Fontaine is challenged to forfeit her beliefs when she discovers dark secrets that threaten her brother's blossoming romance, in a tale told through an assemblage of 40,000 magazine text fragments. First serial, Tin House.

A Novel

Woman's World

Overland

Since childhood, Riley has been a keen collector of bubble gum cards. Now, thirty years later, the one card missing from his collection is the legendary card 19 from the 1967 Mission Impossible television series, of which only one exists. One day a mysterious grey-haired man drops a playing card in a deserted alley. Riley picks it up. Is it a secret sign? Before long, he is finding all kinds of bubble gum and cigarette cards on the street, each one apparently containing a further hidden clue to a coded message. Will Riley rise to the challenge and discover the secret of the cards? And will he ever find illusive card 19? Exquisitely written, extremely funny, and visually stunning, The Card is the utterly unforgettable story of a man who views the world - and everything in it - just a little bit differently from the rest of us.

The Card

Norma Fontaine lives in a world of handy tips and sensible advice. Whether it's choosing the right girdle or honing her feminine allure, she measures life by the standards set in women's magazines. But Norma discovers that the real world is less delightful—and more sinister—than the one portrayed in the glossies. When dark secrets threaten her brother's blossoming romance, Norma must decide whether to sacrifice life in a woman's world for the sake of her brother's happiness. As her decision is slowly revealed, readers realize that, like life in the magazines, Norma isn't quite what she seems. A stunning visual tour de force painstakingly assembled from 40,000 fragments of text snipped from women's magazines, Woman's World is a powerful reflection on society's definition of what it means to be a woman.

Jonathon Green

Want rice and Aberdeens for dinner? Or andy mcnish--wouldn't that be apples and spice? It's rhyme time, and this witty, wildly inventive dictionary will inform you those "code words" stand for beans, fish, and nice. Amazingly detailed, it includes a history of rhyming slang, 100 categories, and over 2,500 phrases. Best of all, it takes a "bilingual" approach that lets you learn new slang while looking up the old!

Cassell's Rhyming Slang

Frank Joslyn Baum

L. Frank Baums The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900, is Americas most famous fairytale. Its influence spans the world and crosses generational divides. One hundred years after its original publication Graham Rawle has produced an exquisite reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz, which will enthral readers from eight to eighty. Rawles Oz contains over one hundred new colour illustrations and introduces characters from the original book not featured in the film, including the Kalidahs, the Dainty China People and the Quadlings. He has created a spectacular new vision of The Wizard of Oz.

Graham Rawle

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