Notes from a Fellow Traveller: Mentalism, meaning and thirty years of mistakes by Derren Brown

Honoured to have worked on the design for the new book by the great Derren Brown. Launched at the Magic Circle on July 4th, the book comes in 3 editions, paperback, limited edition hardback (shown) and a boxed deluxe edition. Derren Brown's first book for magicians in 20 years. 520 pages on performance theory, the process of creating his theatrical shows, and on-stage technique. This touring journal, written by one of the most successful West End performers alive, came into being while Derren performed his sell-out tour of Showman around the UK in 2022/3. It is written for magicians and mentalists looking to put on a show, and looks in detail at show-writing and performance, as well as questions of material, character, script, spectator handling and more.