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300 x 240 mm landscape
112 pages full colour, 420 illustrations
£20 including P&P [to the UK]

Marie Kondo says ‘Declutter’; Jane Dorner says ‘Love your stuff’. Now that we are staying at home more than ever, the objects we surround ourselves with carry particular meaning. Your Zoom background tells friends and work colleagues a great deal about you. People are judging each other by what is on their mantelpieces, on the walls, and objects on display. Your ‘stuff’ defines who you are. It tells stories about you. 

This book interweaves personal history with social comment; musings on why people collect (or hoard); how things are made and the unsung craftsmen who made them; the bizarre nature of value; and the universal urge to decorate objects and our homes.

Each page is richly illustrated with the author’s expressive watercolours of her possessions. This book will make you look with fresh eyes at what you own, and have you revelling in your own stuff of life.

A fellow Art Worker writes: 'It's a beautiful book; the emotional openness feels so right, salted, just nicely with a dry wit.'

Jane Dorner has 16 published books, plus other co-authorships, including those published by OUP, A&C Black, Octopus, Longman, Ian Allen and the British Library. She has just signed a contract to illustrate a book to be published by Hachette in autumn 2021.