Speccy Breakdown: The book

Specifications of the object itself


Posted: 15 March 2026


First edition of 250 hardback copies
Numbered and signed by the author and illustrator (me, JPF)

Pens and paints on a table with a copy of the Financial Times

Pages: 124.
Size: A5 (148 mm x 210 mm) – Portrait
Body: Smyth sewn, full-colour printing, navy blue and white head and tail band, 124 pages, 130gsm silk
Cover: Full-colour printing (outside), matt lamination (outside)
End papers: Stock white
Dust jacket: Full-colour printing (outside), matt lamination (outside), 170gsm silk,
Spine width: 12.00 mm

Includes a signed, numbered limited edition A5 art print: “Do Your Tapping and Think of Something Pleasant (Anything)”.

Price: £45 + shipping
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List of supporters

Supporters of the book are listed here: flintoff.org/speccy-breakdown-patrons



What else can I tell you?

Here’s a list of Speccy Breakdown posts published on this site. Most include audio of me reading the post aloud.


List updates automatically (click any to read / listen):

  1. Original invitation to readers

  2. Thanks for joining me. Here’s what’s coming

  3. The book, and the daily emails about making it

  4. “Speccy” is not meant to be unkind

  5. Some fragile bloke in a psychiatric ward, drawing pictures

  6. Why I hate talking about this – and can’t stop.

  7. Smiling in every photo. Wishing I was dead.

  8. What £45 actually pays for

  9. Thank you to these people who have ordered

  10. Specifications of the object itself

  11. The moment his hand left the rail

  12. The orders came in

  13. Making the book, on a difficult day

  14. What held me up, and what didn’t

  15. The part where I work out postage

  16. Crash helmet

  17. Every day I think: I have to stop

  18. The rules I make up as I go

  19. The people I was sure I’d never hear from again

  20. Faces I drew on my day off

  21. What gave me confidence

  22. Not quite going to make it

  23. Still at it. And there’s a thank you page

  24. Sharing it with The People Who Matter Most

  25. Proof copies (also Brecht)

  26. There for the asking

  27. Chuffed

  28. Falling into a padded envelope

  29. A nice problem to have

  30. Seasick on Zoom

  31. A barcode won’t help

  32. Gone to the printer

  33. He talked with his wife
Last updated: 03 May 2026