Prepare yourself for a surreal excursion into the lost world of picture puzzles. With Pythonesque wit, Rawle has devised dazzlingly imaginative-well, frankly, bizarre-illustrations, situations, and stories that all pose a riddle or problem. Consult the solutions at the back of the book at your own risk. Color illustrations.

Wonder Book of Fun

Humor & Entertainment

Rawle, Graham

Puzzles & Games

Mariner Books

A recreation of a 1930s-style "annual", with bright full colour on every page which illustrates puzzles and conundrums. Graham Rawle writes regularly for "The Guardian" including his series "Lost Consonants" with which he has established a following and published two books.

Graham Rawle's Wonder Book of Fun

Orion Publishing Co

An amateur photographer's discovery of a bizarre photograph from 1959 involves him in a criminal investigation into the world of pin-up photography, in an illustrated novel-cum-scrapbook rife with visual clues and solutions. 25,000 first printing.

Diary of an Amateur Photographer

Arts & Photography

Studio

Graham Rawle uses the absence of consonants, illustrated with collage pictures in "The Guardian". One example of a lost consonant effect is "Carol had gone to the Ladies' to power her nose", accompanied by a picture of a woman with a generator attached to her nostril.

Return of Lost Consonants

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

Boxtree Ltd.

A charming, surreal, visually stunning and utterly unforgettable new novel, in which the design of the pages replicates the way our hero's mind works as he pieces together the mystery at the novel's heartSince childhood, Riley has been a keen collector of bubble gum cards. Now, 30 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 elusive card 19? Exquisitely written, extremely funny, and visually stunning, this is the utterly unforgettable story of a man who views the world—and everything in it—just a little bit differently from everyone else. Each of the 15 cards, created by Graham Rawle, appear in color as they turn up in the story.

The Card

Literature & Fiction

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

A charming, surreal, visually stunning and utterly unforgettable new novel, in which the design of the pages replicates the way our hero's mind works as he pieces together the mystery at the novel's heart
Since childhood, Riley has been a keen collector of bubble gum cards. Now, 30 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 elusive card 19? Exquisitely written, extremely funny, and visually stunning, this is the utterly unforgettable story of a man who views the world—and everything in it—just a little bit differently from everyone else. Each of the 15 cards, created by Graham Rawle, appear in color as they turn up in the story.

Literary

Lost Consonants/Postcards

Graphic Design

Atlantic Monthly Pr

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 delightfuland more sinisterthan 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.

Woman's World: A Novel

Photography & Video

Catapult

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 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. Painstakingly assembled from 40,000 fragments of text snipped from women’s magazines, this strange and wonderful tale moves at the breakneck pace of a pulp thriller. A stunning visual tour de force, Woman’s World is also a powerful reflection on society’s definition of what it means to be a woman.

Counterpoint

OVERLAND is set in California, in 1942 -- or at least, a version of 1942. Because everything about Burbank in this novel is both utterly familiar and disquietingly strange. George Godfrey has been hired by the US army to make a factory disappear. A Hollywood set-builder, his talents are required by the war effort to hide Burbank's vastaircraft plant from Japanese reconnaissance planes. George has to take a factory the size of a small city, and make it seem to be part of the suburban California landscape. He builds streets and houses on the roof. With his right-hand man, Jimmy, he fills felt greenfields with fake sheep, employs extras to wander around the imaginary city as its fictional inhabitants. As the weeks turn to months, the Overland project becomes evermore elaborate, and George's superiors begin to doubt his sanity as he builds a fake"lake" where he can go fishing...Far below him, Queenie and her Japanese-American friend Kay work in the darkness of Underland, welding aircraft parts, with no sense of what's going on above their heads. One day, they see a fishing hook descending from the looming darkness of the roof, and when they follow it, find themselves stepping out into a sunlit world they never imagined existed. OVERLAND is a book like no other -- to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel where characters' dreams and desires come down to earth with more than a bump -- confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As surreal and playful as it is affecting and unsettling, no-one other than Graham Rawle could have created it.

Overland

Chatto&Windus

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Wonder Book of Fun

Graham Rawle's Wonder Book of Fun

Diary of an Amateur Photographer

Return of Lost Consonants

The Card

The Card

Lost Consonants/Postcards

Woman's World: A Novel

Woman's World: A Novel

Overland