Slow Ride to India by John Randle (Whittington Press, 2017)

In 1968 John Randle, then in his mid 20s, travelled by land from England to India, a journey scarcely imaginable today. He documented his travels in around 3,000 black and white photographs taken with a 35mm Canon SLR. Some fifty years later, Randle, now proprietor of the Whittington Press, fished these images out of storage with a view to publishing them in a book documenting … Continue reading Slow Ride to India by John Randle (Whittington Press, 2017)

The English Scene by John O’Connor (Whittington Press, 2004)

Our last encounter with the work of John O’Connor was the engravings made by a man then in the prime of life for the Golden Cockerel Press‘ 1946 We Happy Few. In this review we leap forward six decades to a 2004 book that could be seen as O’Connor’s swansong: The English Scene, published by the Whittington Press. The book, which was the fifth of … Continue reading The English Scene by John O’Connor (Whittington Press, 2004)