The Sillitoe eBook now available.

The eBook comes in the form of a Factory Handbook. The publication is packed with facts about Sillitoe’s Nottingham and features essays by our commissioned writers as they visit the location of the book and discuss the themes from a modern perspective.

The publication is lavishly illustrated with superb photographs from the Karel Reisz collection, BFi, Nottingham County archives and Picture The Past and some of Nottingham’s best photographic talent.

Download your copy of the Sillitoe Trail eBook (16MB PDF).

The eBook is part of a suite of digital publications designed to make the trail as widely available as possible and was revealed at the Sillitoe Day held at Nottingham Contemporary on 27th October – you can read a review of the event here.

The trail’s production process is being shown in a special BBC East Midlands ‘Inside Out’ programme on Monday 29th October which contains details about our forthcoming App release for iPhone. The Sillitoe Trail iPhone App is now available on the Apple app Store as a free download The iPhone version of the trail has been developed for walkers and cyclists and features audio, essays, Maps, a built-in QR Code scanner and high resolution picture galleries especially designed to take advantage of the new iPhone 5 16:9 display. Follow our twitter feed @sillitoetrail for release information.

You can also view a mobile optimised web-app that will work on non-Apple smartphones such as Google android, Blackberry and Microsoft.

View Sillitoe Trail Web-App on your smartphone.