Blog
- Music
Manchester, on paper and on record
Every order leaves from Manchester, so here are two very different portraits of the city.
- Music
Four records to play start to finish
Albums that only make sense in order, with nothing else on. Turn the phone over.
- Film
Why we stock silent films
Nobody speaks, so everything is subtext. A short case for the films that came before sound.
- Books
Long books for short evenings
How to read a big novel twenty pages at a time, and why it is worth it.
What we mean by subtext
Every book, film, record and object here comes with one line about what it is really about. Here is why.