THE LATEST BOOK · PHIL RAWLINGS
The Left-Hander’s
Survival Guide
Living counter-clockwise
in a clockwise world.
A warm, gently humorous collection of personal essays about growing up left-handed—and finding your way in a world designed for someone else.
From childhood classrooms to travel, music, family life and fountain pens, these stories explore the quiet art of adaptation. Illustrated throughout with my own pen-and-ink drawings.
Hardback & paperback · 176 pages · Published May 2026
CHAPTER ONE · A FREE SAMPLE
The Crayon Incident
Before I ever smudged ink across a page, before detentions and hooked wrists, and before the word “cack-handed” drifted across a classroom, there was a crayon.
I don’t remember it myself. I was small. Three, perhaps four. Old enough to grip colour. Not old enough to understand ideology.
I picked up a crayon with my left hand.
A FEW CHAPTERS ALONG THE WAY
Familiar objects.
Different perspectives.
Pen-and-ink illustrations from the book.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
The finished book.
Words, drawings and a different angle.
FIND YOUR OWN WAY
A different angle on everyday life.
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