Egg and Spoon by Rose Blake Rough Trade Books 2022 1st ed, stapled card covers, 28pp., text generally sound albeit with slight creasing to top margins of the photo section, rubbing to the spine, original seal - slightly creased on the rear - has obviously been cut open. The artist and illustrator Rose Blake tells the story of a childhood fuelled on art and creativity, infused with travel and steeled by the more quotidian aspects of family life growing up with the artist Peter Blake. Surrounded by a cast of originals and eccentrics and taking in backdrops such as London, L.A. and Paris, Blake creates poetic snapshots of a family, with the joys of a life dedicated to art and the inevitable fragilities and poignancy of age and, pertinently, ill health. The effect is that of a literary photo album, with all the charm and character and emotional intensity those documents communicate. Rose Blake - daughter of the celebrated Sir Peter Blake - is an illustrator and artist who studied at the Royal College of Art. Her book A History of Pictures for Children (2018), written by David Hockney and Martin Gayford, won the New Horizons award at the 2019 Bologna Children's Book Fair. Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged. (£4.60/pb/zainab)