Sheldrake Press

07/05/2025

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Cast ne’re a clout till May be out. But if the forecasters are right, soon we’ll be seeing bees in the garden again.

For cautionary tales about these and other hazards, turn to Harry Graham’s ruthless rhymes in ‘When Grandmama Fell Off The Boat’ at https://bit.ly/giftsSP.

SR

02/05/2025

Thank you Felicity McCarthy for adding our book to your wonderful library. 📚❤️

29/04/2025

⚡️GIG OF THE DAY⚡️

How jamby is that?

We got lucky in the ‘New Camden journal’ last week when Maggie Gruner wrote up Cath Harries’ and Melanie Backe-Hansen’s new book ‘Doors of London’, re-imagining all the people who had passed through them and brought them to life.

See her cast of characters at bit.ly/JambToday.

25/03/2025

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‘The way people portray themselves is through their doors,’ says Cath Harries. In an interview with ‘Country Life’, the author of ‘Doors of London’ talks about her 15-year project to find and photograph London’s most extraordinary doors.

Listen on bit.ly/DoorsPodcast

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Cath Harries Photography

10/03/2025

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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

Finding quirky solutions to everyday problems is what made Heath Robinson famous.

For more, https://sheldrakepress.co.uk/product-category/books/

HP

03/03/2025

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Last weekend our author, the house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen, got front-page coverage in in the Financial Times House & Home section. ‘My focus is on the stories of people,’ she says. One of her clients had seen the ghost of a woman walking through their house. A medium named her Edith, and Backe-Hansen did find that a girl called Edith had lived there in the 19th century.

We do like a good story!

HP.

Financial Times

26/02/2025

Clearing out the kitchen cupboards the other day, I came across an Ian Logan cake tin.

In the Swinging Sixties, Ian Logan and his partners at JRM Design created a pioneering line of tin trays and other homeware with a popular Middle Eastern-inspired motif called Salome. I bought it then without knowing who Ian was. Years later, pure chance brought him into our publishing house, and together we created 'Logomotive: Railroad Graphics and the American Dream'.

Terence Conran christened him the Tin Man of Design: https://bit.ly/IanLogan

SR.

13/02/2025

If you want somewhere to launch an architecture book, you could hardly do it better than the National Liberal Club at 1 Whitehall Place. From the marble staircase and the pillared Smoking Room through to the arched windows, everything shouts magnífica. A perfect match for our new book ‘Doors of London’, celebrating style and craftsmanship.

Cath Harries Photography C.J. Schüler



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13/02/2025

📖 Judging books by their covers? Try judging buildings by their doors! 🏛️

At a sold-out Authors' Club event, Cath Harries Photography and Melanie Backe-Hansen, authors of ‘Doors of London’, joined their Editor C.J. Schüler to talk about some of the most overlooked but photogenic aspects of the city.

An evening talk on doors was held at the historic Authors’ Club in London, presented by the editor and authors of ‘Doors of London’.

08/01/2025

Spending Christmas in the Suffolk coastal town of Aldeburgh gave me an opportunity to do a bit of casual door spotting, and what I found fully confirmed this former sea port’s reputation as a treasure trove of architectural detail. SR.

23/12/2024

Door of the Day 🚪✨ See more in ‘Doors of London’ by Cath Harries and Melanie Backe-Hansen. Tap to shop.