BY MARCIA FARQUHAR

Designed and edited by Alastair Brotchie
Published by bookartbookshop, London
1 Nov. 2021

The diary of a majestic minx, dancing the reader through the

unique life of an epicure of the dedicated seething fringe.

Spilling over with chaotic tenderness, wit and a passionate

sincerity riding pathos across the concluding furlongs to tell how

it was and how it will never be again.

A joyful vivid insight from the only artist I know who

astonishingly can be both performer and audience simultaneously.

- B. Catling, author of The Vorrh Trilogy

Pushing 60 is poetic and sensitive with a punk patina that gives

the prose a satisfying bite. Farquhar delivers a coming-of-a-certain-

age meditation wherein the noise of the past (sometimes a

symphony, sometimes a cacophony, sometimes a scream of agony)

echoes endlessly through the lessons of the present day, and the

anticipation of life’s continuing unfolding. Situated at the brink of

Farquhar’s seventh decade, Pushing 60 is filled with legends in

every sense of the word. It’s a memoir that won’t walk a straight

timeline, crackling with vulnerability and audacity, humour and

grief, art and love.

- Season Butler, author of Cygnet

To read Marcia Farquhar is to experience a beautiful drowning, a

life flashing and twinkling before the eyes, her words like endless

pockets of air to be greedily inhaled. Farquhar’s memories and

recollections not only conjure images, sounds and smells they create

whole landscapes, movies and dreamtimes as they dance and spin

around my brain.

- Georgina Starr, artist and writer

The term sui generis could have been invented for Marcia Farquhar.

It’s hard to tell whether this is a memoir, an essay or an extended

performance. Like a crazed impresario, she stage-manages a chorus

line of ghosts — of Bowie, Lorca, Camus and Joe Strummer and

a score of nameless lodgers and headmistresses — who kick and

pirhouette, formations morphing: one last turn, and then another,

then one last last one after that, before the curtain falls.

- Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and The Making of

Incarnation

Book Details:

Format Hardback | 216 pages

Dimensions 170 x 190mm

Publication date 01 Nov 2021

Publisher bookartbookshop Ltd

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Illustrations note 60 black & white illustrations

ISBN10 0992774691

ISBN13 9780992774691