Poor Artists by The White Pube games a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman

a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes' It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin

which brings together three festive stories

he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church

Why does cheese smell

Eight years later

Poor Artists by The White Pube games a riveting read' Jeremy PaxmanSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed 'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard 'A full throated defence of the inherent value of making, experiencing and talking about art' Frieze 'Let me stay there, let me paint. Let me go to bed when the sun comes up. I don't want life to sharpen me.' Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into