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Contributing writers include Seamus Heaney, Edna O'Brien, Brian Moore, William Trevor, Neil Jordan and John Banville.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535114674449,"sku":"GOR002831196","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50767236170001,"sku":"GOR003256378","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0436102544.jpg?v=1750740871"},{"product_id":"losing-ground-book-donovan-wylie-9781857029185","title":"Losing Ground","description":"A photographic account of the life of a group of new age travellers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569050198289,"sku":"GOR001681217","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49628075720977,"sku":"GOR002500948","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1857029186.jpg?v=1750834549"},{"product_id":"notes-from-moscow-book-donovan-wylie-9780330330329","title":"Notes from Moscow","description":"As a Western world capital, Moscow is now unique in the fact that it has the accoutrements of a city but the economy of a village. Survival on the streets here is more akin to the 16th that the 20th century. For the first time since the coup which ousted Gorbachev, a Western photographer has compiled a detailed photographic essay on the effects of that event. In 64 photographs, Donovan Wylie dissects this great city as never before, distiling its human situation into a moving and coherent narrative of pain and joy, showing ordinary life thrown into turmoil by extraordinary circumstances.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572126753041,"sku":"GOR001887905","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51828527038737,"sku":"GOR003661239","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330330322.jpg?v=1751357925"},{"product_id":"ireland-book-donovan-wylie-9780233988993","title":"Ireland","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643994251537,"sku":"GOR002536262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50248155103505,"sku":"GOR002059119","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0233988998.jpg?v=1750738849"},{"product_id":"donovan-wylie-book-donovan-wylie-9783869307732","title":"Donovan Wylie","description":"North Warning System is Donovan Wylie's third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture, and draws a close to his Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions. The development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War made Canada's arctic frontier vulnerable to attack from the air. This forced Canada and the United States to jointly construct a matrix of short and longrange radar stations in the 1950s. Known as the Distant Early Warning Line, these stations provided electronic observation and surveillance capability across Canada's northern frontier throughout the Cold War. In the 1990s, these stations were upgraded to form the North Warning System (NWS) which is increasingly active-as international maritime traffic develops throughout the north, so does military presence. In North Warning System, whiteness takes on the quality of a blank canvas, a metaphor for the sweep of history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50902241214737,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50902242230545,"sku":"GOR014115900","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3869307730.jpg?v=1751422628"},{"product_id":"donovan-wylie-housing-plans-for-the-future-book-donovan-wylie-9783958294882","title":"Donovan Wylie: Housing Plans for the Future","description":"This is the latest of Donovan Wylie's books with Steidl that explore the architecture of the Northern Ireland confl ict. While Wylie's earlier publications including British Watchtowers and Maze (on Belfast's Maze prison) document disappearing military structures, Housing Plans for the Future focuses on the legacy of architectural contain- ment in urban areas today.Wylie took these photos during walks through a number of social- housing neighborhoods in inner-city Belfast, which look eerily similar. While the built environments at fi rst appear benign, even mundane, sustained looking reveals how they purposely control vision and movement. Walls block vehicle access, houses are inverted to face away from neighboring communities and minimize potential antago- nism, and excessive street lighting ensures visibility in what Wylie calls \"a prison of sorts ... a completely thought-through system of social control.\" These defensive structures, built in the 1970s and '80s and still populated today, are a powerful and largely unrecognized legacy of the Northern Ireland confl ict.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51062066151697,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51062068609297,"sku":"NIN9783958294882","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/395829488X.jpg?v=1751159374"},{"product_id":"donovan-wylie-book-donovan-wylie-9783869307824","title":"Donovan Wylie","description":"Donovan Wylie's The Tower Series, now available as a complete set in a custom slipcase, reveals the repetitive character of military conflict across diverse geographies and histories. 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At dusk, across the water, they come to life--an inscrutable flash, both coming and going, marking time and distance. We wait for that light as we anticipate a lover or an invader, and then ask with Woolf's James Ramsey: \"So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing.\" - Chris Klatell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e represents things near and far away, Donovan Wylie's camera crosses channels that flicker between barriers and invitations. Following the June 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, Wylie began to photograph distant lighthouses on key procedural dates; exploring ideas of family and fractured relationships to understand the United Kingdom's current state, and eloquently contemplating how isolation and identity shape its sense of self. 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