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Installation made from 123 books

Simryn Gill, Installation View, © Tate 2006
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Handy Pocket Guide to Asian Gemstones, Carol Clarke. Hong Kong: Periplus, 2004
Blue Monkish, Zai Kuning. Singapore: The Substation, 1996
Who are the Reds, E P Dark. Sydney: F H Johnston, 1946
The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference, Richard Wright. London: Dennis Dobson, 1955
House Decoration in Nubia, Marian Wenzel. London: Gerard Duckworth, 1972
Construction Manual of Prefabricated Timber House, Mohd Shukari Midon, Chu Yue Pun, Hilmi Md Tahir, Nor Azian Mohd Kasby. Malaysia: Forest Research Institute, 1996
The People of the Leaves, Vivian Meik. London: Philip Allan, 1931
Stick and Leaf Insects of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, Paul D Brock. Kuala Lumpur: Malayan Nature Society, 1999
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954
The Power of Movement in Plants, Charles Darwin. London: John Murray, 1880
Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould. London: Penguin, 1991
Poisonous Snakes of the World: A Manual for Use by U.S. Amphibious Forces. Washington D.C.: Department of the Navy, 1965
It was the Babblers’ Nest, C Felsinger. Colombo: Lake House Investments, 1972
The Observer’s Book of Birds’ Eggs, G Evans. London: Fredrick Warne & Company, 1954
The Shell Collector’s Handbook, A Hyatt Verrill. New York: Putnam & Sons, 1950
The Observer’s Fighting Vehicles Directory World War II, Bart H Vanderveen. London: Fredrick Warne & Company, 1969
Barrack Room Ballads, Rudyard Kipling. London: Methuen, 1914
First Charge: A Handbook for Police Officers, Trinath Mishra. New Delhi: Sheridan Book Company, 2006 – Fan-Tan, Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2005
The Coconut, Edwin Bingham Copeland. London: Macmillan, 1931
Malacca Strait and West Coast of Sumatra Pilot, Hydrographer of The Navy. Taunton: Ministry of Defence, 1971
Paradise Tales: A Selection of Stories from Air Niugini’s Inflight Magazine. Bathurst: Robert Brown and Associates, 1986
We Bought an Island, Evelyn E Atkins. London: Coronet, 1978
Old Goa, S Rajagopalan. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1987
Tropical Diseases: 50,000 BC to 2,500 AD, Robert Desowitz. London: Flamingo, 1998
History of Indian Administration Voulme II, Medieval Period, B N Puri. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1973
The Flora of Delhi, J K Maheshwari. New Delhi: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1963
The English Teacher, R K Narayan. Mysore: Indian Thought Publications, 1955
Home To India, Santha Rama Rao. London: Victor Gollancz, 1945
Sylvia Plath. Letters Home. Correspondence 1950 – 1963, Selected and edited with a commentary by Aurelia Plath. London: Faber and Faber, 1975
Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje. London: Picador, 1984
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2005
Aunts up the Cross, Robin Eakin. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1967
Echoes of Celandine, Derek Marlowe. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973
Gone Fishin’: An Easy Rawlins Novel, Walter Mosley. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1998
The Opening up of the World, J F Horrabin. London: Methuen, 1938
A Pattern of Islands, Arthur Grimble. London: John Murray, 1955
Report On The Trial of Xanana Gusmao in Dili, East Timor. Geneva: International Commission of Jurists, 1993
The Chronicles of Gujarat, Captain A C Elliot ISC. Punjab: Languages Department, 1970
A Colour Guide to Kinabalu Park, Susan K Jacobson. Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Parks Trustees, 1996
Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops, Isadore Brodsky. Sydney: University Co-Operative Bookshop, 1973
Spiders of Australia, Barbara York Main. Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1964
First Studies in Plant Life in Australasia, William Gillies. Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, ND
The Asian Highway: A Complete Overland Guide from Australia to Europe, Jack Jackson and Ellen Crampton. Brighton: Angus and Robertson, 1979
An Approach to Vedanta, Christopher Isherwood. Hollywood, California: Vedanta Press, 1963
Earthworks, Brian Aldiss. London: New English Library, 1972
In Good Faith, Salman Rushdie. London: Granta, 1990
Purity and Danger, Mary Douglas. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970
Derek Jarman’s Garden. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996
The Nature of the Universe, Fred Hoyle. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953
The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James. New York: The Modern Library, 1929
A History of British Gardening, Miles Hadfield. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985
Oriental Despotism, Karl A Wittfogel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957
How to Cook and Eat in Chinese, Buwei Yang Chao. London: Faber and Faber, 1956
Meatless Days, Sara Suleri. London: Collins, 1990
Canework, Charles Crampton. Leicester: The Dryad Press, 1957
These Poor Hands, B L Coombes. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939
The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers Vol.2, Hunter S Thompson. London: Picador, 1988
Why Worry? K Sri Dhammananda. Kuala Lumpur: Buddhist Missionary Society, ND
Granta 58: Ambition. London: Granta, 1997
Playing and Reality, D W Winnicott. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974
The Joy of Laziness: How to Slow Down and Live Longer, Peter Axt and Michaela Axt-Gaddermann. London: Bloomsbury, 2005
Life the Goal, J Krishnamurti. Eerde, Ommen, Holland: The Star Publishing Trust, 1928
Tranquilisation with Harmless Herbs, Eric F W Powell. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Health Science Press, 1974
Neem Dreams, Inez Baranay. New Delhi: Rupa & Company, 2003
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, Greil Marcus. London: Faber and Faber, 2005
The Art of Shooting, Charles Edward Chapel. New York: A S Barnes, 1960
Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel, Richard Brautigan. London: Picador, 1978
Penguin Modern Poets: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten: The Mersey Sound. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967
All Day, All Night, Cath Kenneally. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2003
The Privacy of the Self, M Masud Khan. New York: International Universities Press, 1974
No Visitors Allowed: Short Stories, John Machado. Singapore: Landmark Books, 2003
Pleasant Hell, John Dolan. United States and Great Britain: Capricorn Publishing, 2005
Nymphenburg, Palace, Park, Pavilions: Official Guide, Luisa Hager and Michael Petzet. Munich: Bavarian Administration of State Owned Castles, Gardens and Lakes, 1971
Women Who Think Too Much, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. London: Piatkus, 2003
The Curse of the Pontianak, Ralf Modder. Singapore: Horizon Books, 2004
The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers. London: Penguin, 1963
Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel of Rural India, Kamala Markandaya. Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1956
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Stories, Flannery O’Connor. London: The Women’s Press, 2001
Nymphomania: A Study of the Oversexed Woman, Albert Ellis & Edward Sagarin. London: The Ortolan Press, 1965
Difficult Daughters, Manju Kapoor. India: Penguin, 2001
Mother Worship: A Gynocritic Study of the Civilisation and Culture. An Indian and World Perspective, Ananda. Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1994
Sex and Repression in Savage Society, Bronislaw Malinowski. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1927
Hello My Big Big Honey!: Love Letters to Bangkok Bargirls and Their Revealing Interviews, collected by Dave Walker & Richard S Ehrlich. Bangkok: Dragon Dance Publications, 1992
Freedom Song, Amit Chaudhuri: London, Picador, 1999
Kinetic Art, Guy Brett. London: Studio Vista, 1968
Hula! New, Easy Self-Teaching Method, Scotty Guletz (South Sea Scotty). Honolulu: South Sea Sales, ND
Exasperating Essays: Exercises in the Dialectical Method, D D Kosambi. New Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1957
London Does Not Belong to Me, Lee Kok Liang. Petaling Jaya: Maya Press, 2003
Barbarians at the Gate, Leonard Woolf. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939
Men Against the Jungle, Ritchie Calder. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954
Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden, Editors John M Randall & Janet Marinelli. New York: Brooklyn Botanic Garden Publications, 1996
British Citizenship Test Study Guide: The Essential Study Guide for the Life in the UK Test, Henry Dillon. London: Red Squirrel Publishing, 2006
Drawing at the Zoo, Raymond Sheppard. London & New York: The Studio Publications, 1949
Europe, Ken Bolton. Adelaide: Little Esther Books, 2005
Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving. Granada: Miguel Sanchez, 1994
The Karma of Brown Folk, Vijay Prashad. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000
Itinerant Blues, Samuel Wagan Watson. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002
The Noble Savage 3, A Meridian Periodical. Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, May 1961
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, George Bernard Shaw. London: Constable & Co, 1932
Chinese Magic and Superstition in Malaya, Leon Comber. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1960
An African Student in China, Emmanuel John Hevi. London: Pall Mall Press, 1965
A History of British Serial Killing, Martin Fido. London: Carlton Books, 2001
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad. London: Penguin, 2000 – Your Face Mirrors Fortune, R G Rao. New Delhi: Ranjan Publication, 1997
Indian Problems in Malaya: A Brief Survey in Relation to Emigration, K A Neelakandha Aiyer. Kuala Lumpur: The India Office, 1938
The Surprising Asians: A Hitch – Hike Through Malaya, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam, Frances Letters. Sydney: Angus Robertson, 1968
A Guide to Bushwalking, Book 3: Blue Mountains and Heathcote National Park, V. Oerlermans. Helensborough, New South Wales: Cosmorama Press, 1979
Prospecting and Mining for Uranium in Australia: Notes for the Guidance of Prospectors, Australian Atomic Energy Commission & Department of National Development, 1957
Cambodia in the South East Asian War, Malcolm Caldwell and Lek Tan. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1973
21 Days: A True Story of a Malaysian Hostage in Sierra Leone, Ganase Jaganathan. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfishbooks, 2005
Twenty Two Malaysian Stories, Edited by Lloyd Fernando. Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books, 1968
Nine Dayak Nights, W R Geddes. London: Oxford University Press, 1961
Three Dances of Oceania, Beth Dean. Sydney: Sydney Opera House Trust, 1976
Malaya Must Cost No More Australian Blood, Rupert Lockwood. Sydney: Current Book Distributors, 1951
Knots, R D Laing. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971
Explosives, John Read. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1943
The Tin Crisis, Gill Burke. Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Strategic and International Studies, 1986
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury. Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther, 1974
The War in the South: The Story of Negri Sembilan’s Guerillas, Shan Ru-hong. Bangkok: Mental Health Publishing, 2003
Kim Philby The Spy I Loved, Eleanor Philby. London: Pan Books, 1968
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee & Walker Evans. London: Panther, 1969
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Simryn Gill, Installation View, © Tate 2006

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