The publishing world is full of the esoteric and the intellectual. It is also full of the nonsensical and the pointless and with the death of the bin end book store (“Book World” being an endangered species on the high street these days) many of publishing’s less successful output tends to turn up in Poundland. Browsing the store recently I came across The Worst Fashion Trends in the World!, a small hardback book which is, in essence, a photo book with only a small percentage of input from the author, Richard Jarman. The Premise Jarman is credited as author of this book along with “the ...
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