I have just launched a brand new World of Afar site at www.benpowis.net/afar!

Turtle Guitar is online and free to read for all, it will be followed over the coming weeks by Where Grows the Bitter Herb as the story is released over the coming weeks, a new piece of the story every Monday! Visit the World of Afar today and check back for regular updates, including some sneak peaks into the mysterious story number three…

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Back when I started putting things into books they were all handmade, I still have a couple of them in my physical portfolio, so I thought it would be fun to show some of them on here, because I hardly ever get to show them to people, and I like the content in some of these old things!

This one is Excavation Site Alpha, its a little fantasy book, if you like, about a secret natural history discovery, and the documentation of the creatures that were found there, this narrative is explained on the first page, then the rest of the book is a concertina of hand printed images that started life as pen and ink drawings.

The book was inspired by my fascination of 18th Century naturalists and the voyages they undertook, I’d love to travel back in time and go on one myself, but I can’t, so I made Excavation Site Alpha instead, as a way of taking me on my own mini adventure.

Only this single copy exists now! This book inspired by book of prints, Strange Creatures I, which is available to buy in the Strange Alchemy Bookshop if your interested in hand printed creatures!

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