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“The fridge is a moot point. The father, against the house rules that he insists on, removes a slice of apple pie from the wrong shelf in the fridge. There is a right and a wrong. A his and a hers. Think East and West Germany. Choose any border you wish … this is the divided chiller of a fridge and an icy new regime. The present crisis is that a slice of apple pie requires a cross-border raid. In Ireland they call it The Troubles. Here, it’s the Cold War.”

Mark Rowden is a poet, typographic designer and author, born in Cambridge. In 1998 he published his first collection of poetry. Later, in 2000, he wrote the ground-breaking non-fiction title, The Art of Identity. In 2023 he embarked on a new creative journey with the publication of two literary novels. He lives in the heart of the middle of nowhere, in beautiful Wessex.

Extract:

The Boy hacks his way to manhood through a thick forest of adult dysfunction. His parents are at war, his grandparents reign over all from a granite stalemate. His hormones demand only one thing of him, his grandfather demands something far more sinister. When everybody’s talking and no one is listening, what is a boy to do? Here Mark Rowden writes a fantastically irreverent Coming of Age tale about a sensitive child forced into an insensitive adult world. This is the story of a man, and what it takes.

AWARDS

Rosenthal Young Designer of the Year Award 1988

he Richard Ginori Porcelain Design Award 1991

Laurent Perrier Design Award (Eureka) 2004

The Worshipful Company of Pewterers’ Design Award - Pewter Live 2008