Leanne Shapton

With a new introduction by Rita Bullwinkel A brilliantly original, meditative memoir, a 'fusion of cool, clear-eyed prose and watercolours, photographs and portraits' (Time Out New York), that explores the world of swimming. Intimate with chlorinated space; weightless yet limited; closed off to taste, sound, and most sight: this is a swimmer's state. When ten-year-old Leanne Shapton joins a swim...

Lenore Doolan, a food writer for the New York Times, meets Harold Morris, a photographer, at a Halloween party in 2002. He is dressed as Harry Houdini. In Leanne Shapton's marvellously inventive and invented auction catalogue, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore and Harold (who aren't real people, but might as well...