Ingrained

The perfect book for anyone who has ever whittled something out of wood or dreamt about doing so. Longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Prize for Excellence. A New Yorker 'BEST BOOK OF 2024' : This memoir honors not just the art of carpentry but the passion of labor itself …a call for all of us, whatever we do, to do it with passion and care. 'A gem of a book ... a hymn to family and living a life you love.' DAILY MAIL ‘A debut that’s both a paean to the art of woodworking and a memoir about creative endeavours’ – OBSERVER 'Mesmeric' SPECTATOR ''Consistently lovely' NEW YORKER 'Robinson’s prose is humorous and macho, taking its lead from the gruff, sensual delivery of food writer Anthony Bourdain… But wood, in all its facets, remains at the heart of his writing.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A beautifully cut and crafted masterpiece inlaid with insight and polished with the pure joy of nature.’ CHRIS PACKHAM, author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir 'Original. Rare. As beautiful as trees... A