In Miniature How Small Things Illuminate The World
- 4 Jul 2019
- 9781786890795
- £10.99
- 304 pp
- 129×198mm
- 1 Nov 2018
- 9781786890788
- £8.79
- 304 pp
- 1 Nov 2018
- 9781786893680
- £20.99
- 7 hrs 4 min
In a few words
A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
In a few words
A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
In a few words
A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
A rare treat, convivial and smart and brimming with intrigue. Simon Garfield excavates the curiouser of small worlds where not all is as it seems - obscure and wondrous, a bit bonkers and totally fascinating, and just my cup of tea
Keggie Carew, Author Of Dadland
Garfield’s book is thrilling, touching and very, very funny
Nina Stibbe
A rare treat, convivial and smart and brimming with intrigue. Simon Garfield excavates the curiouser of small worlds where not all is as it seems - obscure and wondrous, a bit bonkers and totally fascinating, and just my cup of tea
Keggie Carew, Author Of Dadland
Garfield’s book is thrilling, touching and very, very funny
Nina Stibbe
A rare treat, convivial and smart and brimming with intrigue. Simon Garfield excavates the curiouser of small worlds where not all is as it seems - obscure and wondrous, a bit bonkers and totally fascinating, and just my cup of tea
Keggie Carew, Author Of Dadland
Garfield’s book is thrilling, touching and very, very funny
Nina Stibbe
More about
the book
In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large.
Here you will find the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the truth about the flea circus, a doll’s house made for a queen, eerie tableaux of crime scenes, miniature food, model villages and railways, and more. Simon Garfield brings together history, psychology, art and obsession, to explore what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modellers and fans, and teaches us that there is greatness in the diminutive.
More about
the book
In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large.
Here you will find the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the truth about the flea circus, a doll’s house made for a queen, eerie tableaux of crime scenes, miniature food, model villages and railways, and more. Simon Garfield brings together history, psychology, art and obsession, to explore what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modellers and fans, and teaches us that there is greatness in the diminutive.
More about
the book
In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous, and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans. Simon Garfield is a master of finding delight and fascination in unlikely places and here we discover flea circuses, 1,000 tiny Hitlers, miniature crime scenes, model villages and railways, minuscule food and a dozen more intricately examined pursuits. Each object considered plots the course of a new miniature byway, and in unexpected ways lets us see our world in a whole new light.
It is a wide-ranging exploration of the history, psychology and fanaticism attached to working and playing in tiny worlds of our own making. We bring things down to size to understand and appreciate them. This book does the same.
This intriguing study of our urge to make scale models is full of bizarre stories and poignant insight . . . engaging and exuberant . . . The moral seems to be that we’re all small, relatively speaking, which is perhaps why In Miniature is not only highly entertaining; it is also moving
If you are someone who appreciates the quirkier byways of human endeavour, there’s plenty to surprise and delight in this compendium
Fascinating and often funny . . . As a (scaled-down) book, In Miniature is a well-built, highly polished entity. It is full of evocative sentences [and] amusing drive-by thwacks . . . But what he also shows in abundance is the sympathetic understanding of the needs and travails of “ordinary” people that lit up his previous books
In Miniature is a delicious read; quirky, unpredictable and written with a genuine savour for the subject
This intriguing study of our urge to make scale models is full of bizarre stories and poignant insight . . . engaging and exuberant . . . The moral seems to be that we’re all small, relatively speaking, which is perhaps why In Miniature is not only highly entertaining; it is also moving
If you are someone who appreciates the quirkier byways of human endeavour, there’s plenty to surprise and delight in this compendium
Fascinating and often funny . . . As a (scaled-down) book, In Miniature is a well-built, highly polished entity. It is full of evocative sentences [and] amusing drive-by thwacks . . . But what he also shows in abundance is the sympathetic understanding of the needs and travails of “ordinary” people that lit up his previous books
In Miniature is a delicious read; quirky, unpredictable and written with a genuine savour for the subject
This intriguing study of our urge to make scale models is full of bizarre stories and poignant insight . . . engaging and exuberant . . . The moral seems to be that we’re all small, relatively speaking, which is perhaps why In Miniature is not only highly entertaining; it is also moving
If you are someone who appreciates the quirkier byways of human endeavour, there’s plenty to surprise and delight in this compendium
Fascinating and often funny . . . As a (scaled-down) book, In Miniature is a well-built, highly polished entity. It is full of evocative sentences [and] amusing drive-by thwacks . . . But what he also shows in abundance is the sympathetic understanding of the needs and travails of “ordinary” people that lit up his previous books
In Miniature is a delicious read; quirky, unpredictable and written with a genuine savour for the subject
Simon Garfield
View profileSimon Garfield is the author of a number of acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award. simongarfield.com
Simon Garfield
View profileSimon Garfield is the author of a number of acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award. simongarfield.com
Simon Garfield
View profileSimon Garfield is the author of a number of acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
simongarfield.com
