Emily Cockayne: Rummage [2020] hardback ZSCFI Nur's city was a tapestry

Nur's city was a tapestry of treasures: the Grand Bazaar alive with colour

could this be the work of more than one obsessive killer

he begins to understand better the manic depression that has permeated his family and that plagued his mother until her last moments

examining Gandhi's March to the Sea and the Chaco War in South America alongside Hitler's rise to power

Emily Cockayne: Rummage [2020] hardback ZSCFI Nur's city was a tapestryRummage tells the overlooked story of our throwaway past. Emily Cockayne extracts glittering gems from the rubbish pile of centuries past and introduces us to the visionaries, crooks and everyday do gooders who have shaped the material world we live in today like the fancy ladies of the First World War who turned dog hair into yarn, or the Victorian gentlemen selling pianofortes made from papier mache, or the hapless public servants coaxing people