Nick Brooks: 3 books

The scope and potential of mouldmaking and casting is fascinating, and makes it one of the most exciting processes available to today's craftsmen. Its opportunities have been developed and expanded further by a range of new methods and materials only recently made available to the domestic market....

Mouldmaking and Casting is a technical manual of the many techniques of this ancient craft and art form. With step-by-step illustrations, it explains the materials required and the processes involved to create reproductions of a range of pieces. The book covers traditional techniques as well as today's more advanced technical methods.

A glorious exploration of working class consciousness, family ties and tensions, memory, misadventure, and redemption An extraordinary tour de force of working class fiction, this is a blackly comic, moving tale of real lives, misadventures, and family. Reported entirely by the protagonist,...