Tank Books
I smoke. I’m not proud of it, but I smoke. And I’m a sucker for cool cigarette packets.
Trying to give up and confronted with a packet of black, gold-tipped Sobraine cigarettes, I’ve not a hope in hell. A camel cigarette tin? Yes, yes, I’m not technically smoking at the moment, but I’d be mad not to buy it, I might never get another chance!
Sliding boxes, flip-lid packets and old cigarillo cases, I collect the lot. They adorn the spare pockets of my room, along with beer mats (no, I haven’t quite given up collecting those, I know once you graduate from teenage to adult you’re supposed to start collecting place mats instead) and postcards.
I thought I’d never find the courage to clear them out, tattered and dust-covered as they are. But if people like Tank keep having brilliant ideas, they might just help me to effectuate a serious life overhaul, without having to sacrifice too much of my teenage vision.
TankBooks are classic stories presented in cigarette boxes. Advertised as ‘tales to take your breath away’ the series consists of six beautiful mini-books, by Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Leo Tolstoy.
The stories are unabridged (and not too miniscule to read) and numbered from one to six. There are no women authors featured at the moment, but perhaps we could petition them to produce a second series. What do you think?
To buy all six titles in a glorious TankBooks tin box (that’s what really got me going!) will cost you just £42.35 (the strange price includes postage). Find them here.
Clare Hammond
gorgeous!!! Have you seen Stuart Evers’ 10 Stories About Smoking?
It’s enough to make you start smoking! Do any of the titles bear a health warning?!