Two Rivers Press
Now we have a second volume of When Reading Really Rocked, covering the punk explosion in Reading – bands, venues, record labels, recording studios, fanzines and more. I love the punk-era DIY attitude, outrageous outfits and hairstyles! The most enjoyable aspect of this project was connecting with some of the people who were there.
University of Oxford, Development and Alumni Engagement / Two Rivers Press
I LOVE doing maps! Like a great signage system, a well-designed map can do more than point you in the right direction – it can make you feel safer and more confident walking about.
Here’s my 2024 in maps:
It’s okay if you don’t love maps as much as I do, it just means we probably can’t be friends.
When Reading Really Rocked: The Live Music Scene in Reading 1966–1976, by Adrian Moulton, Mike Warth and Austin Matthews
Two Rivers Press
When Reading Really Rocked relives the decade when Reading’s music scene turned itself up to 11 and really started to rock. A hugely well-informed and entertaining account of live music between 1966 and 1976, from the emergence of psychedelia to the dawn of punk, it covers the early years of the Reading Festival, lost and much-missed venues, local heroes and year by year accounts of the bands and musicians that played in Reading.
Reading’s Influential Women, by Terry Dixon & Linda Saul
Two Rivers Press
This wide-ranging and fact-filled compendium of more than 60 influential women who have made a difference in the world, all with a connection to the Reading area is illustrated with a mix of photos and artistic styles. Includes a fish scientist, an air racer, inspirational sportswomen and one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers.
The Whole Story: Painting more than just the flowers,
by Christina Hart-Davies
Two Rivers Press
A beautiful retrospective overview of the work of award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies, this book tells the whole story – of plants and flowers and their habitats, associated organisms, and the plant life cycle from seedling to decay.
The Art & History of Whiteknights. Ed. Jenny Halstead
Two Rivers Press
Published to celebrate 20 years of the Whiteknights Studio Trail, this books presents the a short history of this ‘village within a town’ and features artworks inspired by this area of Reading, UK, from 28 artists along the trail.
Bonjour Mr Inshaw. Poems by Peter Robinson. Paintings by David Inshaw
Two Rivers Press
Bonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the award-winning poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw, the celebrated painter, whom he first met during the artist’s years as Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the mid-1970s.
Robinson’s poems combine memories of Inshaw’s paintings, or characteristic landscapes, with experiences of his company and conversation, presented in an en face format.
The Art of Peter Hay, by John Froy with Martin Andrews
Two Rivers Press
Peter Hay (1951–2003) was a visionary artist whose work has a poetic and mystical quality. A fine draughtsman, watercolorist and inventive printmaker, he was at heart a figurative artist. He had a strong sense of place; the junction of the rivers Thames and Kennet close to his Reading home was a frequent symbolic theme in his work, which moves into abstraction through striking use of black and white and a rich use of colour.
This book brings together, for the first time, the range of this prolific artist’s work.
Messrs. Dash & Dare 