Reviews

Dreaming the Karoo
'Blackburn explores the ruthlessness of colonial frontiers, what we hear from those they dispossess, and what it means to be at the heart of who we are. Here is a work of astonishing breadth, clarity and power. Again and again, as I read, I gasped at the intense relevance and importance, as well as the beauty of this book.'
– Hugh Brody

'An astounding, disarming book, full of grief and beauty. It's a requiem for a lost world, but also a powerful dream of an alternative to our own age of extinction.'
– Olivia Laing

Thoughts in a House
This spare and haunting book is all about associations: links between a writer and an artist who have known each other for a long time; accumulated bonds between people, animals and objects.
– Ian Collins

Threads
'I like the sound of Threads; the Delicate Life of John Crake ... Cape publishes some of the most beautiful books around and this account of the author's quest to find out more about the beguiling Norfolk fisherman-turned-artist, considered an undiscovered genius by Sylvia Townsend Warner and others, is certain to be lovely to hold in the hand (it will come with lavish illustrations)'
– Rachel Cooke, The Observer

Murmurations of Love
'It is not only the poems in this dutch/english publication, that are so remarkable. On the right hand side of every page there are magnificent photographs by Andrew Smiley ... images of murmurations of starlings taken against the evening light in Suffolk ... it is a book to make you silent with wonder.'
– Dutch review for Murmurations