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Tag Archives: Salt

The Real Thing – Booksellers, not retail sales assistants

March 29, 2013

Today’s Guardian reports that Amazon Marketplace is hiking its fees up for third-party traders. In a piece published in the same …

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Me and my shadow – Egg Printing Explained by Katy Evans-Bush

November 19, 2012

With a jolt I realised that I was standing at the foot of my own grave. Sergeant John Field, 1803339, of …

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In space no one can hear you scream – Sophie Mayer’s The Private Parts of Girls

July 25, 2012

Buy The Private Parts of Girls from Salt In Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson, a character called Sally pitches to …

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The smell of the underground – Tobias Hill’s Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow

July 22, 2012

Buy Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow from Salt Forget Eliot’s crowd of commuters flowing over London Bridge. Today’s city …

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