Horse & Bamboo: A Journey
Horse & Bamboo: A Journey is a memoir by Bob Frith focusing on the creation of the unique and ground-breaking visual theatre company, and on the creative stories behind the company’s horse-drawn and motorised tours. It records each of the many touring shows created by the company, and many other creative projects undertaken by during those years.
Available now as a 190-page hardback book, with over 200 illustrations. Price £20.00 incl. p&p. (UK only. For postage rates from outside the UK contact bob@bobfrith.co.uk)
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“What treasures. So lovely to have this record of a truly wonderful company.”
“…a beautiful, wholesome and stunning, phenomenal achievement…The book has been very beautifully presented…”
“I love your book! My friend and I were reading it and reminiscing. Congratulations it’s a testament to incredible work and an ethos that is sadly diminishing in the theatre world.”
101 Wood and Lino Prints
101 prints by Bob Frith, created over 50 years of work in the mediums of wood and lino-cut. The book includes many of the posters made for Horse & Bamboo, alongside other visual works for the company. It also includes prints made for The Whitaker Museum’s Cabinet of Curiosities, book commissions, portraits of friends, and visionary prints of Rossendale alongside recent prints from the Dorset landscape.
A Seacoal Story
A book due for publication by the end of 2026. Written by Horse & Bamboo horse-handler, Moira Hirst, it’s a book for children which draws on Moira’s experiences as a sea-coaler at Lynemouth on the Northumbrian coast. This harsh way of life meant following the tides to pull coal floating in the sea and heaving it onto a horse-drawn cart. The small community of sea-coalers lived in caravans above the shore, with no electricity and only one cold water tap between them.
Illustrated by Bob Frith….
“A delightful dive into a darker being alive, with barking.” John Hegley