World of Interiors

A delicioushlovable review by David Lipton for the World of Interiors! Check it Out!

"While his inventions for Whimwondery do spring straight from his imagination, they also have strong roots in literary and artistic precedent. The history of illustrated alphabets stretches back at least to the 16th-century; examples of which Daniel consulted in Cambridge’s University Library before creating his own. With a nominative inventiveness to rival Charles Dickens’s, the author’ literary style in the book reads like a series of prose poems peppered with flights of mock-historical fancy to rival Thomas Carlyle at his most ebullient. Gleefully alliterative and occasionally morbid, though, his writing clearly draws most power from the twisted tragicomic temperaments of such writers as Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl and Dr Seuss. After all, as Daniel explains, ‘Australian humour is pretty black."