Loading... Please wait...

Free UK delivery to stores and on orders over £20.00

Add Mistakes in the Background Paperback book by to your basket Add Mistakes in the Background Paperback book by to your wishlist
Mistakes in the Background Paperback book by

Mistakes in the Background

by Laura Dockrill

(based on 18 reviews and 125 votes)
£7.19 £8.99
You save £1.80 (20%)
  • Paperback book Paperback book
  • IN STOCK - usually dispatches within 24 hours IN STOCK - usually dispatches within 24 hours
  • Free UK delivery to your local store Free UK delivery to your local store
  • Free UK delivery to your local store This product is part of the Borders Podcast offer

Would you prefer a different copy or edition?

Mistakes in the Background

Feast your eyes on a treasury of words and illustrations from one of the most exciting young talents around, recently voted by The Times as one of the top ten literary talents of 2008. Enter the weird and wonderful world of Laura Dockrill ! I draw like a left-handed baby, I can hardly spell my own name and watching me use a glue-stick is a bit like watching a large bear trying to ram his own head into a pocket-sized cat-flap !no, really. But once the book is finished, when I can see the pages coming together, getting thicker and thicker, detailed and covered with stories and my imagination recorded on pages !everything at last makes sense (to me at least). I did this because I have got things to say. I've got pictures I want you to see and characters I want you to meet - the crying ice-skating boy, the Rolf Harris obsessive, the rude girl in McDonalds with the chocolate milkshake and the try-hard Mighty Boosh watching mum. I don't keep a diary. I think they're crap. But this is much more than a diary. This is my map.

Top reviews

  • Bookseller review

    Charming and Funny

    This first book from the perfomance poet Laura Dockrill (or Dockers MC if you prefer) is a short, but delightful read. Full of illustrations and poems Dockrill hails herself as an interesting and original literary talent.

    Review by Beccy of the Borders on 2009-01-28 12:37:25

  • 0 out of 5
    An absolute abomination

    If she wasn't friends with Kate Nash Harper wouldn't have gone any where near this ugly compendium of witless drivel. What arguably is worse than the fact she can't write or draw is that she doesn't really appear to have put any effort in to it. All in all it's an insulting mess that sums up the world's obsession with adolescent celebrity.

    Review by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on 16:20, 24 Oct 2008

    Do you agree? Yes No (Agreements: 8, Disagreements: 14)

  • 0 out of 5
    I concur

    I have to agree with Sir Arthur below. Everything about this book - the 'zany' handwritten font, the faux-naif illustrations (which make David Shrigley look like a veritable genius), the garish cover and the calculatedly self-deprecating author biog on the back - bespeak nothing more than a patronising contempt for the audience on the part of both publisher and author. No matter who she's friends with, or how many strings her publicist pulled at the Times, Laura Dockrill is not one of the nation's top literary talents - she's a Purple Ronnie for the hipster generation. Avoid.

    Review by Dies Irae on 08:29, 25 Oct 2008

    Do you agree? Yes No (Agreements: 7, Disagreements: 10)

  • 4 out of 5
    Quirky

    It's quirky, entertaining and pretty much spot on in terms of being relevant to the youth of today. Shows Harper Collins have their finger on the pulse. It may not be intellectually challenging but it's not claiming to be. Lighten up.

    Review by Jane Doe on 17:12, 27 Oct 2008

    Do you agree? Yes No (Agreements: 7, Disagreements: 7)

18 more review(s) available View them all

What's your view? Write a review for Mistakes in the Background

ISBN

9780007300594

Published
October 13th 2008 by HarperCollins Publishers
Category
General
Number of pages
96
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM
Dimensions
210 x 148